A singular life often circles around a singular moment, an occasion when one's life in the world is defined forever and the emotional vocabulary set. For the extraordinary writer James Salter, this moment was contained in the fighter planes over Korea where, during his young manhood, he flew more than one hundred missions. James Salter is considered one of America's greatest prose stylists. The Arm of Flesh (later revised and retitled Cassada) and his first novel, The Hunters, are legendary in military circles for their descriptions of flying and aerial combat. A...
A singular life often circles around a singular moment, an occasion when one's life in the world is defined forever and the emotional vocabulary set. ...
Love, with its fear, exhilaration and transcendence, is perhaps the most enduring subject in the literature of the world. About 11 o'clock on a late August night in Manhattan, Bill stops by his local Blockbuster, and in the nearly vacant shop meets an exotic stranger looking for advice on which movie to rent. In their fragmented and awkward first conversation, they exchange phone numbers and she rides away on her bicycle with a copy of Jules and Jim. "At two that morning my phone rang. The machine answered; it was Irina saying how much she liked the movie." Not long after, they meet...
Love, with its fear, exhilaration and transcendence, is perhaps the most enduring subject in the literature of the world. About 11 o'clock on a la...
