Thursday, March 10, 2016

The Violet Hour, Great Writers Facing the Inevitable


by Katie Roiphe (2016)

“...in this elegant volume of five case studies, Ms. Roiphe, the gleeful contrarian and culture critic has set out to show us how some of her favorite writers faced their last days.  They are Freud, Susan Sontag, John Updike, Dylan Thomas and Maurice Sendak. Her epilogue is a conversation with James Salter, who, though not ill at the time of their discussion, died in June 2016.”

NY Times Review in the March 10, 2016