Louis Begley
Birth date: October 06, 1933
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”The conclusion I reached came down to this: none of my books, neither the new novel nor any I had written before, was very good. Certainly, none possessed the literary merit that critical opinion ascribed to them. Not even my second novel, the one that won all the prizes and was said to confirm my ...
Is there such a thing as a good lie? Whenever this question comes up, I imagine that most people can agree that white lies are fine. Without them, we’d probably be perpetually annoyed with one another. But when the lies get bigger, it becomes harder and harder to say if a lie is justified—a “good” l...
While browsing NetGalley, I saw Cindy Williams's upcoming memoir available and the email acceptance to read it thrilled me. I read Penny Marshall's My Mother Was Nuts a few years ago, and hoped to read another side of the story. Shirley is much shorter in length, and of course covers other highlight...
Meg Wolitzer of The New York Times Book Review said: "[E]ngrossing ... Begley gives us a chance to see into two different, often obscured worlds. One is the most private recesses of another couple’s marriage. The other is high-WASP society — though most people don’t usually even know where that part...
”She wore the smallest of bikinis. Strings around her waist and between her legs that held in place a triangle of red cloth. Two smaller triangles of the same cloth attached to strings covered her nipples. Unbroken, luxurious tan; a salacious invitation to dream of the hours she spent lying in the s...
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