Simone Zelitch


A Hard-To-Love but Indisputably Lovable Wielder of the Poison Pen

By Simone Zelitch

A Window Across the River By Brian Morton Harcourt, 304 pages, $25. * * *Writers are often told not to write novels about writing. The temptation must be tremendous. After all, they know the territory and the tools, and to a novelist, few things are more gripping than the process of putting words on paper. But it is hardRead More



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