The Plague Albert Camus (1947) A lot of people read Camus’ The Plague back when they were teenagers or perhaps when they were in college, as one of those classics of world literature that generally demanded attention as the magnum opus of the youngest Nobel Prize winning writer in history. But it should probably come as no… Continue reading The Plague

Revolutionary Road Richard Yates (1961) Two of the nominees for the National Book Award for fiction in 1962 were Richard Yates’ novel Revolutionary Road and a little thing by Joseph Heller called Catch-22. In the end, neither novel won the award (it went to Walker Percy for The Moviegoer), but the Yates and Heller novels had much in common.… Continue reading Revolutionary Road