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The disaster parade.(Book Review)
Blake Bailey A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates. Picador, 683 pages, $35
Anyone who aspires to write the Great American Novel should read Blake Bailey's new biography of Richard Yates and think twice. By turns modest and affable, psychotic and raging, courteous to a fault and touchy to the point of derangement, this dapper, handsome, immensely appealing man could turn after a drink or two into the cruellest, most irrational, and abusive monster of paranoid monomania imaginable. The wonder is that this baffled self-tormentor, who razed a drunken path through life like a whiskey-fueled twister, wrote some of the coolest, most lucid, and ...
- Blake Bailey. A Tragic Honesty: the Life and Work of Richard Yates.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today King, Daniel P. September 1, 2004 700+ words
Blake Bailey. A Tragic Honesty...and Work of Richard Yates. New York...in place." Richard Yates's friend and...Lost World of Richard Yates," Stewart...have followed. Blake Bailey's exhaustive...
- `A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates' a detailed portrait of...
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) August 13, 2003 700+ words
...The Life and Work of Richard Yates' by Blake Bailey; Picador ($35...died, in November 1992, Richard Yates was living in a small...The Life and Work of Richard Yates," Blake Bailey captures the beauty of...
- Richard Yates' Gruesome Life Laudably Indexed for Posterity.(Arts&Entertainment)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) July 28, 2003 700+ words
...Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates, by Blake Bailey. Picador, 675 pages, $35...singularly sad life of the novelist Richard Yates in A Tragic Honesty, an unabashed...piece of reclamation work by Blake Bailey. There's much to celebrate...
- Richard Yates's portrait of the artist as a young thug: "Doctor...
- Magazine article from: Studies in Short Fiction Nelson, Ronald J. January 1, 1995 700+ words
Richard Yates died in Birmingham, Alabama on 7...readership. As Andre Dubus notes, "Richard Yates is one of our great writers with too...24). The same might be said of Richard Yates's prose, which masterfully chronicles...
- THE COLLECTED STORIES OF RICHARD YATES.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Ploughshares O'Nan, Stewart March 22, 2001 700+ words
THE COLLECTED STORIES OF RICHARD YATES Henry Holt, $28.00 cloth...In the years since his death, Richard Yates has been that saddest of literary...he hopes this book will do for Richard Yates what Knopf's big red collection...
- `The Collected Stories of Richard Yates,' by Richard Yates; Henry Holt &...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service DeLuca, Dan June 13, 2001 700+ words
The word on Richard Yates is that he's a late, great giant who was grossly under appreciated...Russo, who wrote the introduction to "The Collected Stories of Richard Yates," to Richard Ford, who has praised Yates as "a writer too little...
- Revolutionary Road.(Richard Yates' classic work republished)(Critical Essay)
- Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine Siegel, Lee July 1, 2001 700+ words
Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates. Vintage Books, 2000. 337 pages. $14. The Culture of...thematic obsession of the novelist and short-story writer Richard Yates, and so the publication of his collected short stories...
- The Easter Parade.(Richard Yates' classic republished)(Critical Essay)
- Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine Siegel, Lee July 1, 2001 700+ words
The Easter Parade, by Richard Yates. Picador USA, 2001. 229 pages. $13. The Culture of Retrieval...thematic obsession of the novelist and short-story writer Richard Yates, and so the publication of his collected short stories...