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...editor; of cancer; in Washington Depot, Conn. In his 35 years with the magazine, Bobby Baker covered areas ranging from national and foreign affairs to art and architecture. But his deep love of literature produced some of his most memorable writing, including cover stories on Robert Frost (1950) and André Malraux (1955), and an essay on the state of American poetry...
...subject to endless sifting and interpretation. Hermann Hesse judged Kafka's works "an urgent formulation of the question of religious existence." W.H. Auden called Kafka "the author who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relation to our age as Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe bore to theirs." André Gide did not know what to admire most, "the naturalistic presentation of an imaginary world, or the daring turn to the mysterious." But Edmund Wilson was not ready to admire either: "Kafka is being wildly overdone," he grumbled. "What he has left us is the half-expressed gasp...
...Beaulieu's venerable André Tchelistcheff, at 81 the dean of American wine makers, who helped stir the ferment in Washington wines. In 1967, he chanced across some Gewürztraminer, the spicy wine of Alsace, that had been made in a basement by the late Phil Church, a University of Washington professor. The sage of Beaulieu was astonished. "It was the best Gewürztraminer produced in the U.S.," he recalls. Tchelistcheff then turned his attention to a fledgling winery that became Chateau Ste. Michelle. The race was on. Church and colleagues began marketing wines...
...promises to the Jewish people." If Wiesel's literary career had ended with Night, he would still have earned an international reputation as a founder of Holocaust literature. Once the novel was published, others dared to speak out: Nelly Sachs' laments were carried in O the Chimneys; André Schwarz-Bart chronicled The Last of the Just; Jerzy Kosinski described The Painted Bird. Wiesel himself was set free; his other books rushed into print: Dawn, The Accident, The Town Beyond the Wall, The Gates of the Forest, A Beggar in Jerusalem...
...father, André Gregory, veteran avant-garde director and recent film star (My Dinner with André), gives a mannered and actorish performance that somehow works perfectly: he has exactly the fussy, studied quality of a paterfamilias of a bygone...