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UNBELIEVABLE: Richard ford | History Defined

Cloudflare outage cause revealed as major websites disrupted

The outage affected X, Substack, Canva and many more websites

The Independent UK

‘Their pursuits are the cigar and the siesta’: how two centuries of British writers helped forge our view of Spain

Laurie Lee and Robert Graves among ‘English-speaking Quixotes’ in new book celebrating literary love for all things Spanish

The Guardian - UK

In brief: A Ride Across America; This Motherless Land; Be Mine – reviews

A bicycle-led musing on the state of the US; a page-turning, Nigerian-inflected reworking of Mansfield Park; and a wistful final chapter for Richard Ford’s sportswriter Frank Bascombe

The Guardian - UK

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Richard Ford: ‘I don’t read for comfort. Comfort I source elsewhere’

The Pulitzer prizewinning author on taking life lessons from Chekhov, warming to Woolf and reading Larkin on loop

The Guardian - UK

Review: In Richard Ford's 'Be Mine,' a boomer reckons with his past and present

FICTION: Ford's everyman Frank Bascombe is back for one more brush with existence.

Tribune News Service

Be Mine by Richard Ford review – America, the fool’s paradise

The final Frank Bascombe book explores happiness and denial, completing a social history of Ford’s own boomer generation from midlife to end times

The Guardian - UK

Richard Ford: ‘I just make up shit to worry about at 3am’

The Pulitzer-winning US author on his fifth and final Frank Bascombe novel, why Donald Trump won’t get re-elected, his country’s gun culture and the death of his friend Martin Amis

The Guardian - UK

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Fiction to look out for in 2023

With new work from Richard Ford, Lorrie Moore and Zadie Smith, plus second novels by Caleb Azumah Nelson and Guy Gunaratne, this is shaping up to be a memorable 12 months

The Guardian - UK

6 wounded in shooting outside funeral at church in Pittsburgh, police say

PITTSBURGH — Gunfire erupted outside a funeral Friday, leaving six people wounded and continuing a spate of gun violence across Pittsburgh’s North Side.

Tribune News Service

Sam Byers: ‘JM Coetzee made me vegetarian’

The novelist on being inspired by the Beats, discovering Chekhov, and taking notes from Pierre Boulez

The Guardian - UK

Book of the Week: Half good Ross Taylor

A review of the Ross Taylor bestseller

Newsroom.co.nz

Rail route of the month: Barcelona to Cádiz, the slow train right across Spain

Our slow travel expert takes a 12-hour odyssey from Mediterranean Catalonia – via Cervantes, bandit and sherry country – to Atlantic Andalucía

The Guardian - UK

Where My Feet Fall: Going for a Walk in Twenty Stories review, edited by Duncan Minshull – the wander years

Richard Ford, Kamila Shamsie and Tim Parks, among others, shed light on the life-affirming joy of rambling, whether through familiar streets or uncharted territory

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