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Investor who inspired infamous ‘Wall Street’ Gordon Gecko character dies at age 87
The Independent US via AOL· 1 day agoGreed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.”...
41 new books for summer reading in 2024
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 7 days ago“The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv and the Making of an American Film Classic” (Grove/Atlantic Monthly Press), by Daniel de Visé...
Finch's Fortune
The Atlantic· 3 days agoPEOPLE who have read all of the Jalna books talk about Adeline, Augusta, Nicholas, Ernest, Renny, Alayne, Eden, and Piers precisely as they talk about the family next door. Women, especially ...
Fall Fiction
The Atlantic· 3 days agoThe argument has started once more with the publication of The Master of Jalna by Mazo de la Roche (Atlantic Monthly Press and Little, Brown, $2.50), and ...
Light Fiction
The Atlantic· 3 days agoGay, of whether vacation writing makes for good vacation reading. Lark Ascending, by Mazo de la Roche (Atlantic Monthly and Little, Brown, $2.50), will ...
Alice Munro, acclaimed short-story writer and Nobel Prize winner, dies at 92
The Fargo Forum· 5 days agoAlice Munro, the Canadian short story writer who lent mythic proportions to the lives of ordinary...
Three Novels
The Atlantic· 3 days agoJoseph Hergesheimer’s The Limestone Tree (Knopf, $2.50) — a very pleasing book, constructed on a happy plan, and interesting both as history and as fiction — traces the life of a family, founded ...
Erie Water
The Atlantic· 3 days agoWALTER D. EDMONDS’S ERIS WATER is as fresh arid as full of sap and racy flavor as an apple. It was evidently written by a man for whom the rustic landscape is a passion only less strong than ...
Young Renny
The Atlantic· 3 days agoONE way of measuring Miss de la Roche’s accomplishment in creating the Jalna saga is to ask oneself how many other novels one remembers with such lasting clearness and pleasure. The concerns ...