小說家中不少奇才：A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. "Possession" 《迷情書蹤》by A.S. Byatt。Chester Himes was on par with Ellison, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, S.A. Cosby writes.

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"Possession： “A Romance” " by A.S. Byatt 《迷情書蹤》 “I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.”Credit...作者87歲過世 2023.11.16

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"Possession" by A.S. Byatt  《迷情書蹤》

作者87歲過世 2023.11.16 。  昨天看過BBC等英國媒體的訃聞

今天紐約時報的，補上：

A.S. Byatt, Scholar Who Found Literary Fame With Fiction, Dies at 87

One of Britain’s most ambitious and intellectual novelists, she won the Booker Prize with “Possession,” her 1990 tale of illicit love spanning two centuries.

A.S. Byatt in 2009. “I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel,” she said. “I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.”Credit...Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times

Ms. Byatt was a brilliant critic and scholar who broke the academic mold by publishing 11 novels and six collections of short stories. “I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel,” she bristled in an interview with The New York Times Magazine in 1991. “I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.”

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The Crime Novelist Who Was Also a Great American Novelist

Chester Himes was on par with Ellison, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, S.A. Cosby writes.


Chester Himes’s life was a tangible journey through the existential African American psyche.Credit...Carl Van Vechten/Van Vechten Trust, via Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University


By S.A. Cosby


S.A. Cosby is the author of the New York Times best sellers “All the Sinners Bleed” and “Razorblade Tears,” and the highly acclaimed “Blacktop Wasteland,” winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. This essay is adapted from his introduction to “The Essential Harlem Detectives,” by Chester Himes, which Everyman’s Library will publish this month.
Feb. 2, 2024