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Brigitte Weeks on Diane Johnson's latest in The Washington Post Book World:

Diane Johnson is a true woman of letters. She has written more than a dozen books, all respectfully reviewed, and won major honours. While building a reputation as a mistress of elegant, intricate fiction, she has for decades written perceptive and sometimes acerbic critical essays for The New York Review of Books, as well as the screenplay for The Shining, the horrific Stanley Kubrick movie based on Stephen King's novel . . .