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Elmore Leonard: Out of sight, not out of mind
One of my favourite crime writers died this week. Elmore Leonard died on August 20 after suffering a stroke. He was 87.
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Good old writers
Who says old geezers can’t write? Some of them die with the sharpest minds. That’s certainly true of the literary critic Frank Kermode, who has just died at the age of 90. Reading about his death yesterday, I turned to his essays published in the London Review of Books. You can’t tell his age from […]
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John Sandford: Good fun like Elmore Leonard
I was surprised when a New York Times book reviewer writing about a history of thrillers said he had never read John Sandford. He is one of the best American crime writers in business. Sandford writes about cops and robbers as entertainingly as Elmore Leonard, author of Get Shorty and the most critically acclaimed of […]
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