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Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times by Gregory Cowles, Senior Editor, Books.
Literary culture can be as guilty as the
rest of American society when it comes to favoring the young, both as
characters and as authors — when’s the last time anybody released a list
of fashionable old writers, an annual tally of (say) “Five Over 65”?
That’s
our loss. Age, after all, often brings exactly the ingredients most
crucial to literary success, including experience, wisdom and
perspective. The proof is in a handful of books we recommend this week,
among them “A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety,” by the former
poet laureate Donald Hall (who died in June); “Clock Dance,” Anne
Tyler’s latest novel, about a retiree who shakes up her placid existence
in service of others; and “The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela,” by
the legendary civil rights activist who earned his law degree at the
tender age of 70, while still incarcerated, and became president of
South Africa after his release. Let the young try to keep up.
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Source: New York Time
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Source: New York Time
