"It seems to me that the writers we love most are those who manage to capture something we ourselves have thought and rejected, for being forbidden, dangerous, elusive, something that if we made room for it would undo something else we want to keep, so we force it away—literature as a catalogue of rejected thoughts. For the way they can hold onto what the rest of us would put away as dangerous, they become heroes, the ones who emerge with the one thing we hoped to keep secret, but know we need. When I say to you James Salter is one of my heroes, that is what I mean."
--From an essay by Alexander Chee
One phone call and John Roberts had the full story – there was an air of
amazement in the room
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The football and tennis writer, who has died aged 84, was a major force in
changing the Guardian’s sports coverage, alongside long stints at the Daily
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