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Michael Dirda (born 1948) is an American book critic, working for the Washington Post. ... Family. Dirda lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife, ...
The Jorkens stories are "told" in the setting of a London gentleman's or adventurers' club of which the title character and the narrator are members, and usually open with another member mentioning an interesting experience he has had; this rouses Jorkens, who in return for a whisky-and-soda goes the other member one better with an extraordinary tall tale, supposedly from his own past.
On Conan Doyle; or, The Whole Art of Storytelling [1] is a 2011 book about Arthur Conan Doyle by Michael Dirda. [2] [3] Published by Princeton University Press [4] on 10 October 2011, it later went on to win the Edgar Award for Best Critical / Biographical Work in 2012. [5]
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance (2010) is a family memoir by British ceramicist Edmund de Waal. [1] De Waal tells the story of his family, the Ephrussi , once a very wealthy European Jewish banking dynasty, centred in Odessa , Vienna and Paris , and peers of the Rothschild family . [ 1 ]
Ten of the 20 authors from the book – including eventual literary superstars, novelist Anthony Doer and critic Michael Dirda – attended, as did an audience of a couple hundred people.
Michael Dirda, book columnist for The Washington Post, notes that the American critic Edward Wagenknecht regarded Memoirs of a Midget "as the greatest English novel of its time." Dirda, himself a fan, adds, "(I'm not sure I'd disagree with him, even if nobody seems to read the book anymore: those interested can consult the essay on Memoirs of a ...
Michael “Mikey” Stovall and Jesse Pitcher, along with other friends, were returning home from their annual hunting trip to Kansas, according to family members.
Michael J. Fox gained worldwide recognition beginning in 1982 on the NBC sitcom Family Ties and continued his rise to fame for the next four decades. The Back to the Future star was born in ...