James Salter is recognized as one of America's most important writers. The author of many memorable works of fiction including Dusk and Other Stories, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award, he is also celebrated for his memoirs and many non-fiction essays. Nearly fifty of these essays, along with interviews with Salter and reviews of his work, are part of this new volume, Don't Save Anything. Expansive in scope, it demonstrates the author's breadth and depth of his varied interests and expertise.
This collection provides the reader with hard-to-find pieces published in magazines from the 1970s until Salter's death in 2015. These include evocations of Aspen winters, travels to Europe and Asia, obituaries for friends, and profiles of famous writers that first appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Conde Nast Traveler, the Aspen Times, and many other publications. Also included in Don't Save Anything are Salter's reviews of other writers' works, criticism originally published in the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books.
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James Salter is recognized as one of America's most important writers. The author of many memorable works of fiction including Dusk and Other Stories, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award, he is also celebrated for his memoirs and many non-fiction essays. Nearly fifty of these essays, along with interviews with Salter and reviews of his work, are part of this new volume, Don't Save Anything. Expansive in scope, it demonstrates the author's breadth and depth of his varied interests and expertise. This collection provides the reader with hard-to-find pieces published in magazines from the 1970s until Salter's death in 2015. These include evocations of Aspen winters, travels to Europe and Asia, obituaries for friends, and profiles of famous writers that first appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Conde Nast Traveler, the Aspen Times, and many other publications. Also included in Don't Save Anything are Salter's reviews of other writers' works, criticism originally published in the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books.