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an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties

his first wife

" — Patti Smith

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Life and Art: Essays TC_Bestseller deep fried scorpions in BeijingA marvelous new essay collection from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Somebody's Fool and The Destiny Thief Life and Artthese are the twin subjects considered in Richard Russos thirteen masterful new essayshow they inform each other and how the stories we tell ourselves about both shape our understanding of the world around us. In The Lives of Others, he reflects on the implacable fact that writers use people, insisting that what matters, in the