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One might go so far as to say that Steinbeck's popularity has been based on the special combination of the good and the bad in his work--as in the case of Dickens. On the one hand, in pieces like'Molly Morgan' or'The Moon Is Down', we find theatrical trickery in almost pure form, calculatingly paced and truly parodying the basic view that underlies the best work. On the other hand, in some of the stories, for instance,'The Chrysamthemums,' or some of the pieces from'The Pastures of Heaven', or'The Red Pony', we find fiction which develops (from the central insight of the story) a kind of narrative honesty which does not submit to the temptation to go whoring after'effects'.
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In Garrison Keillor's comic novel, Larry Wyler is living in St. Paul with his wife, Iris, but he longs for the bright lights of the big city--New York. When his first novel hits it big, he's offered a job at the New Yorker magazine, and off he goes. But the New Yorker is not what he thought it was: the magazine Keillor has created is an amalgam of fact and fancy dominated by the Mafia, and Larry doesn't exactly thrive there. Then he starts writing an advice column similar to the one real-life Keillor wrote for Salon magazine. Keillor draws on this and other autobiographical experiences to produce a timely satire of the literary world. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
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