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Roaring through life.
WE JOURNALISTS just have to face it: our place is well down upon the bottom rungs of the literary ladder. The dizzy higher levels belong to novelists, biographers, short-story writers, essayists, critics and makers of belles lettres--you know what I mean: serious writers. Opinion polls which from time to time invite respondents to grade occupations in order of public esteem do little for us hacks; coming in just ahead of the lawyers is hardly a warm endorsement.
And yet, over the years, we have gathered a few laurels genuinely our own. For example, it was not through his scores of novels that Emile Zola tore French politics apart, and won belated justice for ...
- John Le Carre, The Spy Spinner After the Thaw;With `Russia House,' the Author...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Charles Trueheart May 25, 1989 700+ words
...began to melt, outside and inside. John le Carre' had been chiseling the fine dark lines...ice would thaw in my own lifetime," le Carre' says. He is gazing out the window of...that the monolith was breaking up." Le Carre' is thinking back to the spring of 1987...
- `The Constant Gardener,' by John le Carre; Scribner.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Salij, Marta December 13, 2000 700+ words
...black and white? And how do we make John le Carre, spy writer nonpareil, go back into...there must be some shadows still. Even if le Carre has been without his best villain, the...who is doing what it takes to survive. Le Carre has built a peerless career drawing those...
- Le Carre's fearless excursion into the war on terror.(Law and...
- Magazine article from: LawNow Normey, Robert March 1, 2009 700+ words
...in the Washington Post, lambasts John le Carre's new novel, A Most Wanted Man. Yardley...Firstly, Yardley is put off by a letter le Carre sent with the advance copies of his novel...reviewers. The irritated reviewer condemns le Carre for engaging in a preemptive strike because...
- Le Carre's people.
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) August 4, 2005 700+ words
...sales in the multiple millions, John le Carre is Britain's most successful living...Fernando Meirelles's film adaptation of Le Carre's 2001 bestseller, The Constant Gardener...is also the best cinema adaptation of a Le Carre book since the very first, The Spy Who...
- Le Carre's conversion. (conversation with author John Le Carre) (Books and Arts)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) July 1, 1989 700+ words
A surfeit of glasnost in NW3 Le Carre's conversion WITH interviews in the...than the cover story in Newsweek, John le Carre might be accused of taking glasnost too...mistrust. The spy novel existed before Mr le Carre and, he is certain, will survive long...
- The Spy Novels of John le Carre: Balancing Ethics and Politics.(Review)
- Magazine article from: American Political Science Review Nelson, John March 1, 2001 700+ words
The Spy Novels of John le Carre: Balancing Ethics and Politics. By...who writes under the name of John le Carre. These days, spy novels have trouble...though the likes of Graham Greene and le Carre are conceded high marks for their literary...
- The pen is crueler than the sword. (correspondence between authors John le...
- Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine February 1, 1998 700+ words
...editor by authors Salman Rushdie, John le Carre, and Christopher Hitchens in the...letter in response to a speech by le Carre, excerpted in the November 15, 1997, issue of The Guardian, in which le Carre complains of having been unfairly...
- LE CARRE CRACKS NEW MARKET FOR SPIES.(Preview)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) November 15, 1990 700+ words
...three separate audio titles based on John le Carre's forthcoming novel, "The Secret Pilgrim...Secret Pilgrim," the "memoirs" of le Carre's spy-hero Ned (a central character...author to do it with." In fact, it was le Carre who suggested that the audio version of...
Source: HighBeam Research, Roaring through life.