James Salter Audio & Video

From a writer whose every book is a literary event, a superbly accomplished work of fiction.

Richard Ford and James Salter read at 92Y on Apr 29, 2013.

First published nearly a quarter-century ago and one of the very few short-story collections to win the PEN/Faulkner Award, this is American fiction at its most vital - each narrative a masterpiece of sustained power and seemingly effortless literary grace.

In this brilliant audiobook of recollection, one of America's finest writers re-creates people, places, and events spanning some 50 years, bringing to life an entire era through one man's sensibility.

An extraordinary literary event, a major new novel by the PEN/Faulkner winner and acclaimed master, here is a sweeping, seductive, deeply moving story set in the years after World War II....

This collection offers two dozen essays and sketches about one of the passions of Salter's life, travel, a subject beloved by writers across the centuries.

A singular life often circles around a singular moment, an occasion when one's life in the world is defined forever and the emotional vocabulary set.