Brad Gooch is a professor of english at William Paterson University in New Jersey. His latest book is Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor
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From Iran With Love
A selection of poems excerpted from ‘Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz.’ MORE
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Whispers of Love
One man’s quest to translate the great poetry of Persia. MORE
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Haunted Arabian Nights
The 'Arabian Nights' gets a fresh appreciation from fairy-tales scholar Marina Warner.... MORE
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Out There
From Gore Vidal to Tony Kushner, a new book traces the history of American gay writers as they... MORE
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"Mad, Bad Modigliani"
His iconic paintings and outrageous behavior defined modern art, but Brad Gooch says that a new... MORE
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The Last Hero
A new biography by Michael Korda captures T. E.... MORE
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My Meetings With the Man Behind the Mosque
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the leader of the controversial Islamic center Park51, represents a liberal... MORE
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Maugham's Love Life
A new biography of famed British author Somerset Maugham explores his complicated love life and... MORE
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Carver Was the Rage
Brad Gooch on Raymond Carver’s messy, brutal life, groundbreaking fiction, and the controversy over... MORE
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Brad Gooch's Favorite Reads
The famed biographer of Flannery O’Connor and Frank O’Hara recommends five books, from the favorite... MORE
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Flannery Feathers Her Nest
In an excerpt from the new biography of Flannery O’Connor, the famed author, stricken with illness,... MORE
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The Art of Gay Cool
To the pre-Harvey Milk generation, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns defined the quiet cool of... MORE
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Cool Hand Barack
Obama proved to be positively George Bushian in his ability to stick relentlessly to message—the... MORE
