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Roth Retires but Wolfe, Wouk Among Authors Past 80

Posted on 11/21/2012 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin TodayBy Hillel Italie, National Writer, The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Philip Roth, 79 and looking fit in recent photographs, has said that after looking back on his long and prolific career he decided he had written enough. The novel “Nemesis,” published in 2010, apparently will be his last. Other authors, some of them years older, are carrying on. Elmore Leonard, winner this year of an honorary National Book Award, is 87 and says the prize inspired him to …

Jacques Barzun: 5 of the Greatest Books He Wrote After Age 60

Posted on 10/26/2012 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | LegacyJacques Barzun was one of the great thinkers of the past century — a scholar who, in a remarkable eight-decades-long career, wrote dozens of books and analyzed subjects ranging from classical music to detective fiction, and from Jonathan Swift to baseball. Barzun, who died yesterday in San Antonio at age 104, is best remembered for a book that, amazingly, he published in 2000 at age 92: From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life From 1500 to the …