Hop in: Richard Ford and Lorrie Moore offer unforgettable summer road trips Enlarge this image Harper Collins Harper Collins Lots of summer books traditionally invite readers on a road trip, but when literary masters like Richard Ford and Lorrie Moore are in the drivers' seats, the only thing we readers can count on is that we'll travel far beyond the …
Richard Ford’s celebrated Frank Bascombe novels are about a failed novelist turned sports journalist. I don’t think of myself as a savant but writing novels, the little crucible that writing novels is, and the torque and the intensity of trying really hard to say something to interest the reader, sometimes causes you to say something smarter than you would have …
