Chicken Curry. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.
My dear old pal
Blake, author of two superlative biographies of American authors,
Richard Yates and
John Cheever, and currently the authorized biography of
Philip Roth, ended a recent email with "and send me that damned curry recipe."
Blake works very hard, both as a writer (he has not one, but two new books coming out, a memoir and a biography of
Charles Jackson), and as a teacher at
Old Dominion University. His wife, a psychologist, works as well. They have a young daughter, and provided they aren't flooded out of their home in Virginia and their generator is working (weather tends to follow him—read his
Slate stories on being a Katrina victim), one of them will be charged ...
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