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Eric O'Hara
Eric O'Hara was Heidi Montag's step-brother. He died in february 2008 when he fell off of the roof of a building. He had been working on the Steamboat Grand Resort Hotel. Eric was a veteran of Iraq where he served in several missions.
Steven Goldleaf, O'Hara Lit Critic, Joins SocietySteven Goldleaf writes, 'A student of the plain style of American fiction, I'm ever amazed that John O'Hara remains so largely unrecognized as one of its greatest practitioners. It could be argued (and I have) that he is more direct than Hemingway, less obscurely grand than Fitzgerald, less mysterious than Salinger, more substantial than Yates, more accessible than Wolff, etc., and stands atop...
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New Literary CreditBy James MacDonald Martin Kich, of Wright State University, has written an entry for John O'Hara in an on-line reference book called The Literary Encyclopedia. In it, he says that the post-modernist novelists William Gaddis and Joseph McElroy owe something to O'Hara for their treatment of American business conduct. O'Hara, no doubt, would disdain post-modernism as he disdained much academic work. But this late tribute, if...
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THERE'S an arresting advert for an American whiskey which features a dowdy girl in a nightdress pictured in black and white on the left half of a page and, in glorious colour, a pouting, lingerie-wearing, buxom beauty on the right.
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