客房小说家：唐纳德·哈林顿杂集

唐纳德·哈林顿以他的十五部小说而闻名，他也是一位多产的散文、文章和书评作家。
《客房小说家：唐纳德·哈林顿杂集》收录了阿肯色州小说家唐纳德·哈林顿的一系列跨越职业生涯、兼收并蓄的非虚构作品，揭示了一段充满毁灭性损失和失望的生活是如何激发了《波士顿环球报》所称的“当代美国文学中最古怪、最具原创性的作品”
这本广泛收集的采访和其他散文作品（其中许多以前未出版）提供了对哈灵顿生活、爱情和最喜欢的痴迷的一瞥，与文学评论家重演了他的次要（以及不那么次要）戏剧，并揭示了他最欣赏的作家的作品之间复杂且有时有争议的关系。这位客房小说家的书名取自一篇文章，这篇文章是写给他那些未被赏识的作家的情书。他把这位艺术家描绘成一个年轻、中年、非常有趣的老人，以及喜剧、感伤、哲学家和批评家，见证了作家将我们物质生活中看似粗糙的东西转化为持久艺术的非凡能力。
The Guestroom Novelist: A Donald Harington Miscellany
Donald Harington, best known for his fifteen novels, was also a prolific writer of essays, articles, and book reviews.
The Guestroom Novelist: A Donald Harington Miscellany gathers a career-spanning and eclectic selection of nonfiction by the Arkansawyer novelist Donald Harington that reveals how a life of devastating losses and disappointments inspired what the Boston Globe called the “quirkiest, most original body of work in contemporary US letters.”
This extensive collection of interviews and other works of prose—many of which are previously unpublished—offers glimpses into Harington’s life, loves, and favorite obsessions, replays his minor (and not so minor) dramas with literary critics, and reveals the complicated and sometimes contentious relationship between his work of the writers he most admired. The Guestroom Novelist, which takes its title from an essay that serves as a love letter to his fellow underappreciated writers, paints a rich portrait of the artist as a young, middle-aged, and fiercely funny old man, as well as comic, sentimentalist, philosopher, and critic, paying testimony to the writer’s magnificent ability to transform the seemingly crude stuff of our material existence into enduring art.

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