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I Have Learned Not To Read Reviews. Period. And I Hate Reviewers. All Of Them, Or At Least All But Two Or Three. Life Is Much Simpler Ignoring Reviews And The Nasty People Who Write Them. Critics Should Find Meaningful Work.

She Was Pondering The Option Of Law School, The Great American Baby-sitter For Directionless Postgrads.

I Don't Want To Force My Politics On My Readers.

Very Few Writers Understand The Complex History And Maddening Social Order Of The Mississippi Delta. For Steve Yarbrough, Though, It's Home Turf. He Is Wickedly Observant, Funny, Cynical, Evocative, And He Possesses A Gift That Cannot Be Taught: He Can Tell A Story.

My Mum Was Never Too Keen On Tv, So We Kids All Went To The Library And Got Books Out. Right From The Start, I Loved The Works Of Mark Twain. Every Time I Read About Tom Sawyer, I'd Go Out And Do Something Low-level Naughty, Just Like Him.