8 comments: Margot January 18, 2010 at 2:16:00 PM EST. Then, when I compiled my reading list from last year I was surprised to find that I overwhelmingly choose male authors. He died in 1992. And I see no reviews for Russo on your site when I search, so I’m suggesting you consider him. I need to stop sleeping.You DO accomplish quite a bit. But you leave out the middle, it seems, and a lot of very interesting stuff, male-female relationships that prefigure RevRoad, the one about the wife’s infidelity as she visits her husband in the TB ward, the weird, building, violent, impotent rage in the B.A.R. Often, this has to do with class, an issue we skitter away from discussing now just as we did when Yates first wrote these stories ("A Really Good Jazz Piano" is about both race and class.) This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. I don't really read that much or that fast. As in Revolutionary Road, however, the individuals — while not blameless — are victims of circumstance. Candidates richard yates will be called by a letter for the interview round. Miss Snell is a perfectionist when it comes to self-denial, and she expects that of her students. Yes, these stories may have come from early in his career but they certainly indicate a brilliant writer. The prospect of the Christmas party helps Miss Snell’s students forgive her shortcomings even though the other students make fun of them for having such a lame teacher. It's eleven kinds of loneliness, but two kinds of stories. "With your own children, you love them immediately - and with grandchildren, it's exactly the same." Post was not sent - check your email addresses! I am glad I took the break yesterday and will probably take another one along the way. I would not call him sentimental, neither would I say he is dramatic. I read somewhere–no idea exactly where–that Russo is working on a screenplay based on three of Yates’ stories. I could see it winning, mainly on the basis of the author’s very lofty goals in attempting it, but wouldn’t advise you to put everything else aside to read it before the announcement. I’m anxious for your thoughts on Yates’s short stories. We all have our prejudices – where they come from we don’t know – and I’m afraid that I had, with no evidence whatever, pegged Russo down as ‘not for me’. One exception is "A Really Good Jazz Piano", which shows two wealthy young Americans on the loose in Cannes, but they manage to be quite as … You may have seen on my post for Revolutionary Road some caution against reading his books too close together. First edition. I‘m planning on working through Yates’s work in order of publication, so the second book on the docket is Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, his book of short stories written mostly in the 50s before Revolutionary Road was published. Boys Go to Jupiter by Danielle Evans. And I did enjoy them for literary reasons too. It’s possible I would have enjoyed them more for literary reasons had I not been comparing them to Revolutionary Road — a truly marvelous book — but I really enjoyed seeing how Yates the writer developed during this decade. For some reason I think of him as a poor man’s John Irving (and if some of Irving’s recent output is anything to go by, that’s poor indeed) – a sort of widescreen sentimentalist. He is not a “great” but for me is well worth exploring. 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