At the End of the Matinee PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Nominee for Shortlist (2020) Author: Jane Howard

Author: Jane Howard

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From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald

Here he rejects the 'pseudoscholarship' of historical criticism - 'that great demon of chronology' - that considers writers in terms of the period in which they wrote and instead asks us to imagine the great novelists working together in a single room

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At the End of the Matinee PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Nominee for Shortlist (2020) Author: Jane HowardBestselling author Keiichiro Hirano offers a timeless ode to loves fragility and its resilience in this delicate, award winning novel. Classical guitarist Satoshi Makino has toured the world and is at the height of his career when he first lays eyes on journalist Yoko Komine. Their bond forms instantly. Upon their first meeting, after Makinos concert in Tokyo, they begin a conversation that will go on for years, with long spells of silence broken by