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Doctorow is Effective as an Essayist and Novelist.

Maureen Corrigan reviews novelist E.L. Doctorow's first book of essays, entitled "Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution."

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Other segments from the episode on November 17, 1993

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, November 17, 1993: Interview with Howell Raines; Interview with Ralph Wiley; Review of E. L. Doctorow's book "Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution."
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Howell Raines Discusses his Life and Career.

Howell Raines is editorial page editor of "The New York Times." He's written a new "fishing" memoir, one that's part sporting autobiography and part guide-book for the middle years of life. "Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis," (William Morrow & Company). RAINES also won the Pulitzer Prize for "Grady's Gift," a New York Times Magazine article about his friendship with a black woman in segregated Birmingham. (Rebroadcast from 9/16/93).

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Writer Ralph Wiley.

Ralph Wiley: journalist, staff writer at "Sports Illustrated" for nine years, he's now an essayist on the dynamics of race in America. His pieces have been collected in two books, "Why Black People Tend to Shout" (Penguin) and newly, "What Black People Should Do Now" (Ballantine).

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A 'Marriage', A Divorce, A Dying Dog And Essays Done Right.

Essay collections are underrated and often ignored in favor of short stories or novels. But in the hands of a writer as practiced as Ann Patchett, critic Maureen Corrigan says the essay becomes an expansive storytelling vessel. Patchett's new book is This Is The Story Of A Happy Marriage.

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