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There has always been a game of one-downsmanship among modern memoirists as to who has the weirdest, most dysfunctional, most damaging parents. Granted, Kathryn Har- rison more or less ran the table with 1997's The Kiss, which describes her four-year affair with her father, and Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes) and Augusten Burroughs (Running with Scissors) aren't far behind. But there's spirited competition for fourth place. Two new memoirs, Michael Rips' The Face of a Naked Lady (Houghton Mifflin; 192 pages) and Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle (Scribner; 288 pages), are worthy contenders...
She’s gotten rather old, hasn’t she? The lyrics, provocative as ever, don’t seem to match the fact that she looks like a forty-year-old soccer mom, and having Fabolous there just makes it seem like an indecent affair between a mother and her teenage son’s best friend. “I’m not Mr. Right, I’m Mr. Right Now,” Fabo announces at the outset, and Jennifer responds by writhing uncomfortably upon...
...proof of substantive change,” said Ryan, who herself did not sign the letter. “I myself feel that it is important to make sure that Summers hears this message clearly and that he doesn’t end up thinking that the whole affair was merely a storm in a teacup...
Crimson headlines do have a way of winning hearts and minds (hey, it worked for Mahan-Nichols!). But it remains unclear whether a story like this one could undo the damage 2004 has brought to the Superette. It may be that, this time, Harvard’s long love affair with Louie’s really is coming to an end. Though he says business is “terrible,” Chen remains optimistic that his last-ditch efforts to salvage the business will succeed. Eighteen years of history are on his side, but this time Chen?...
...Bore Me Stiff. Chronologically, they're both in their late fifties, but spiritually and psychologically, Charles and Camilla appear to be somewhere in their early nineties. They were born this way, one senses, which may be why they fell in love originally and why their affair has been able to survive so much noisy public disapproval and so many years of relentless tabloid controversy. Slowly, steadily, and relentlessly, their plodding, undemonstrative tortoise love has numbed the public and put the critics to sleep, neutralizing scandal through sheer boredom and reminding us that marriage is not the only way to turn...