Bookworm

E. L. Doctorow

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Michael Silverblatt

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Homer & Langley (Random House)
In this comic and affecting novel based on the lives of the Collyer brothers — one a blind pianist, the other a hoarder and inventor — E. L. Doctorow creates an ironic allegory of modern America.

Read an excerpt from Homer & Langley.

Banner image: E.L. Doctorow speaking at the Chautauqua Institution, 2008. Photo: Pete Wright

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E. L. Doctorow: author, 'Homer & Langley'

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