Michael Wilder

Next Avenue – A Chat

A Chat With 2 Creative Superstars in Their 70s –Novelist Judith Freeman and her husband, photographer Anthony Hernandez, on their work, their lives and their loves – By M.G. Lord / Published December 2021 – Next Avenue The narrator of Judith Freeman’s new novel, “MacArthur Park,” has a lot in common with Freeman, 75.  She …

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A Steady Diet of Low Expectations: A Conversation with Jessica Bruder, Author of “Nomadland”

THREE YEARS AGO, when Jessica Bruder, the author of the Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, published her nonfiction account of the growing tribe of nomads roaming the American West, people who live in their vans or cars or RVs and work seasonal jobs to get by, she couldn’t have known that her book …

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The Port of Missing Women

The Port of Missing Women What is it about Philip Marlowe and female foils? A biographer reimagines his legacy.   BY JUDITH FREEMAN   September 29, 2020 For some time, I’ve imagined writing a novel titled The Port of Missing Women, a term I came across while doing research for my biography of Raymond Chandler, The Long Embrace. It refers …

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