by Bill Marx
Who would have guessed that a writer who proudly earned the reputation as the Oscar the Grouch of contemporary literature would have so many loving fans? But there were few empty seats two nights ago at New York’s Austrian Cultural Forum, which hosted a PEN panel, proudly entitled “The Art of Failure,” on [...]

A recent biography examines the life and work of Thomas Bernhard, an acclaimed Austrian writer and playwright his homeland loved to hate.
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