Word: artsyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ANN BEATTIE'S NEW NOVEL, HER fifth, is enough to make one wince. Another You (Knopf; 323 pages; $24) is set in academia, a trap for many novelists--too many temptations to flaunt the detritus of years of reading, watching and listening to the culture. Beattie, with her penchant for...
Socializing itself seemed pretty heavily streamlined to me, with many distinctive groups of likeminded members: the pre-med crowd, for instance or the artsy crowd or the athlete crowd. Certainly I was no longer a member of a United Nations-type community and I realized that if I wanted to...
The Coop will be full of first years withparents in tow, examining the prices of laundrybaskets, full-length mirrors and artsy M.C. Escherposters (every first-year room has at least one).
Most of the major characters seem to be living in another novel. After his wife's death, McCall and his young daughter move to Italy, where he writes cookbooks and travel articles for American magazines. The job description would be more convincing if he didn't talk like a parody...
The next change, in 1977, retained the concept of ordered choice but reduced the number of choices from 12 down to the current four. This allowed for much more diverse houses, because it required many more blocking groups to be randomized, thereby diluting the character of any given house. But...