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Arts: Modern myth The figure of the abandoned Ariadne was a constant theme in Giorgio de Chirico's work, says MICHAEL GLOVER, but a drastic change of style marred the love affair
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The Estorick Collection of 20th-century Italian art in north
London owns one early masterpiece by Giorgio de Chirico. It is called
Melanconia; it dates from 1912, and it is a perfect example of what
the English Surrealist Gordon Onslow Ford once called "Chirico City" -
large, desolate piazzas; heavy, looming shadows; steeply arcaded
buildings; the odd very small, ill-defined figure or two lost amid
all the desolation; the chuff-chuff of a steam locomotive hurrying
along to some unknowable elsewhere in the background; aggressively
illogical perspectives.
In the midst of that lonely piazza is ...
 "The New York Observer (New York, NY)")
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Richard Yates' Gruesome Life Laudably Indexed for Posterity.(Arts&Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY)
; ...Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates, by Blake Bailey. Picador...macabre index line like this one: "Yates, Richard, apartments, gloom and grime...singularly sad life of the novelist Richard Yates in A Tragic Honesty, an unabashed...
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Beautiful Loser; Richard Yates Wrote about Failure and, in Many Ways, He Was One; A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates by Blake Bailey
Magazine article from: The Stranger
; ...interested in successful people," Richard Yates told an interviewer in 1972...Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates, is that it makes you never want...publication of The Collected Stories of Richard Yates in 2001 and the recent reissuing...
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`The Collected Stories of Richard Yates,' by Richard Yates; Henry Holt & Co.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; The word on Richard Yates is that he's a late, great giant who was grossly under appreciated...who wrote the introduction to "The Collected Stories of Richard Yates," to Richard Ford, who has praised Yates as "a writer too little appreciated...
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 "Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)")
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`A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates' a detailed portrait of the creative, painful life of writer.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
; ...Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates' by Blake Bailey; Picador...When he died, in November 1992, Richard Yates was living in a small, unkempt...Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates," Blake Bailey captures the...
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A DARK TALENT THROUGH A TROUBLED LIFE, RICHARD YATES KEPT FAITH WITH HIS MELANCHOLY MUSE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...perhaps. When I came to know Richard Yates as a writer, teacher, reader...by "The Collected Stories of Richard Yates" (which actually made bestseller...as well as manuscripts in the Richard Yates Collection at Boston University...
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A great American comeback The novelist Richard Yates seemed to be heading for oblivion, says Christopher Tayler, but now his true merit is slowly being recognised
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...The Life and Work of Richard Yates by Blake Bailey Methuen...Stewart O'Nan wrote of Richard Yates in 1999. Yates had died...resurgence of interest in Yates's writing, thanks mostly...group, on the whole. Richard Ford, Michael Chabon...
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Collected stories of Richard Yates.
Magazine article from: The Atlantic
; THE COLLECTED STORIES OF RICHARD YATES Henry Holt 474 pages, $28.00 Richard Yates just might have been the saddest writer America has produced. Solitude and sorrow pervade his...
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The Collected Stories of Richard Yates.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine
; ...The Collected Stories of Richard Yates. Henry Holt, 2001...and short-story writer Richard Yates, and so the publication...Wolff, Richard Russo, Richard Ford, and Jayne Anne...it were, brought up by Yates. These writers have long...
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The Easter Parade.(Richard Yates' classic republished)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine
; ...The Easter Parade, by Richard Yates. Picador USA, 2001...and short-story writer Richard Yates, and so the publication...Wolff, Richard Russo, Richard Ford, and Jayne Anne...it were, brought up by Yates. These writers have long...
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Revolutionary Road.(Richard Yates' classic work republished)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine
; ...Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates. Vintage Books, 2000...and short-story writer Richard Yates, and so the publication...Wolff, Richard Russo, Richard Ford, and Jayne Anne...it were, brought up by Yates. These writers have long...
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