From H-Net, a review of Reading Virginia Woolf by Julia Briggs; and a review of Faulkner and the Great Depression: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Cultural Politics by Ted Atkinson. Ever the completist, John Updike had managed to finish his life-long project of drawing and connecting the things of his world. Did Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes change the memoir genre? (and more and more) From TLS, a review on the real Raymond Carver: How an editor’s pencil created an author’s literary style — and how an author’s wife has undone it. As a ghostwriter, Sandford Dody was expected to suppress his personality and channel the voice of the credited author, yet often his own writing style crept in. A review of The Wounded Animal: J.M. Coetzee & the Difficulty of Reality in Literature and Philosophy by Stephen Mulhal. Writers who

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