Books

Beginners’ Luck

Liam Callanan

Rules of CivilityAmor TowlesViking, $26.95, 352 pp. Ten Thousand SaintsEleanor HendersonEcco, $26.99, 400 pp. In 1947, E. B. White published an unusual travel essay in Holiday magazine about a city that was disappearing before his eyes: New York City. Specifically, his New York City, the New York City of the 1920s and ’30s that he’d lived in before removing himself to hi (...)


 

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about the writer

Liam Callanan is the author of the novels The Cloud Atlas and All Saints. He directs the creative-writing program at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

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