If only she weren't so prolific, the thinking goes, that Nobel would be hers. And Joyce Carol Oates – with the aid of her pseudonyms Rosamond Smith and Lauren Kelley – is nothing if not prolific, having written well over fifty books in her lifetime. But this is not for lack
Jhumpa Lahiri's career should have been doomed as soon as she won the Pulitzer Prize for her first published book, the short story collection Interpreter of Maladies. But her subsequent releases have found her unmoored by the attention and expectations that met her debut effort, and
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