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The Honorary Consul

Graham Greene 1973 (Argentinian revolutionaries abduct the wrong political figure by mistake, and one cynical acquaintance is the only one who cares… perhaps not even he does.) Graham Greene, though a writer of great variety, is known for his “seedy” settings (he popularized the adjective, much to his regret) and the moral dimension of his […]

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The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe 1979 (Seven pilots scale the ziggurat of manliness on the quest to be America’s space heroes.) Tom Wolfe probably awoke one morning and thought to himself, wouldn’t it be great if reading about current events were as fun as reading novels?  And with as simple an idea as that, he kicked off the movement […]

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