![]() ![]() New Orleans, covering not only crime but developing an interest in the Creole He wrote about the undercurrent of life in Today, the “crime beat,” for a New Orleans newspaper. Hearn was a newspaper reporter who covered criminal stories, or as we might say three women tell the story of their time with Lafcadio Hearn, a globetrotting writer best known for his books about Meiji-era Japan.” The promotional description on Amazon’s website describes the book in this way: “The lives of writers can often best be understood through the eyes of those who nurtured them and made their work possible. After reading it, I found that I was already familiar with its subject, the writer Lafcadio Hearn (1840 – 1904), whose books are part of the WVU Library’s rare book collection.įrom reading the review I gathered that Truong’s book can be seen as an imagined conversation that relives moments in Hearn’s life, as spoken by the women who were important to him. This past weekend I lazily paged through a recent issue of the New Yorker magazine and found a book review for Monique Truong’s The Sweetest Fruits. ![]() Blog post by Stewart Plein, Assistant Curator for WV Books & Printed Resources & Rare Book Librarian ![]()
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