The Brooklyn Book Festival begins September 22, but in its pre-festival "Bookend" series today there's an evening on John O'Hara, who surely deserves an event. His short stories are gorgeous broken scenes of American life; his first novel, Appointment in Samarra (1934) still astonishes and amazes; and his style and themes -- a bridge, if you will, between F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Updike -- remain painfully and beautifully relevant today.
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