Remembering novelist Dorothy Allison, author of 'Bastard Out of Carolina'
Allison, who died Nov. 6, based her critically acclaimed novel on her own experience of being physically and sexually abused by her stepfather. Originally broadcast in 1992.
Allison, who died Nov. 6, based her critically acclaimed novel on her own experience of being physically and sexually abused by her stepfather. Originally broadcast in 1992.
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The City and Its Uncertain Walls is Murakami’s first novel since Killing Commandatore. Alvaro Barrientos/AP hide caption toggle caption Alvaro Barrientos/AP It’s hard to explain what The City and its Uncertain Walls is about. It opens with a guy whose job it is to read dreams. Those dreams are stored on shelves of a library….