
On Writers and Writing 2012 Desk Diary
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Stephen L. Carter's first novel is a suspenseful story about the well-off black Garland family. It is a novel about contemporary American society seen through the eyes of a member of the black middle class.
In East and West (1986), Green weaves an epic tale of love and war, intertwining the lives of ordinary people with great historical events. The novel is a powerful fresco of war, but also of an indestructible spirit seeking light amidst darkness.
Battle Cry (1953) is Leon Uris's debut novel based on his experience in World War II as a member of the 6th Marine Regiment.
Susan Sontag's latest novel, inspired by the real-life Polish woman Helena Modjeska. Sontag, through an ironic, erudite style, explores emigration as an existential escape: America is not a paradise, but a mirror of European weaknesses.
Melanie Gideon, an American writer known for her humorous novels about family dynamics, dissects the monotony of marriage in the age of social media in The Marriage Trap (2012).
"Death in a Foreign Country" (1992), Donna Leon's first novel in the Commissioner Guido Brunetti series, is a detective story set in Venice that explores corruption, moral dilemmas, and the complexities of justice.