Example sentences for: yardley

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  • (Read this interview with Cheever in the New York Times [requires free registration], in which she responds to Yardley's comments in the Post : "That's just what he did to Daddy."

  • The Washington Post 's Jonathan Yardley defends his attack on Kathryn Harrison's incest memoir against novelist Tobias Wolff's claims that he was motivated by his animus toward memoir as a genre: "The truth, as opposed to Wolff's self-serving fantasy, is that my objections to 'The Kiss' have absolutely nothing to do with its being a memoir per se, or even with its being one of those 'personal writings that have recently found favor with readers.

  • Post literary critic Jonathan Yardley condemned USA Today for giving its readers "only what they want.

  • The Kiss has been called "slimy, repellent, meretricious, cynical" by Jonathan Yardley in the Washington Post , and things to that effect by sundry others.

  • John Cheever's daughter takes a beating: Jonathan Yardley says Susan Cheever's memoir of her struggles with alcohol is "Grade B literary/journalistic opportunism-cum-sensationalism" (the Washington Post ). Alex Beam goes further in the Boston Globe , calling it a "despicable, wooden memoir."


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