Word: authored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good that many readers have been impatiently waiting for the first of the "even dozen" novels she hoped to write. But having written the first one, she discarded it. The Hard Blue Sky is her second, and while it is not for the wastebasket, it is additional proof that Author Grau is a born short-story writer. She could make the ordinary Negroes and whites of The Black Prince seem special and even important. But in nearly 500 pages of The Hard Blue Sky, its poor-white fishermen wear out their fictional welcome...
...Author Weidman, best remembered for his acidulous portrait of a diamond-sharp Jewish businessman in / Can Get It for You Wholesale, can still stamp the imprint of a heel on the printed page better than anyone else. But, though he knows his way around the jungle of a conniving city, he gets swiftly lost in the desert of the human soul. George Hurst's redemption is so pat and implausible, the world he aspires to so trivially empty, that readers may wish that Weidman's heels had no need to become heroes...
...confessing to a slew of sleazy sins, 2) confessing to be confessing "to worm my way into the graces ... of society," 3) confessing that all the confessing is too mixed up with the drama of "self-presentation" to be deemed "true" confession. The book is an account of how Author O'Connor developed out of precocious childhood into a state of adult infantilism bordering on lunacy...
...what is health? Author O'Connor finds it readymade for him to put on in the wise words of Montaigne: "The grandeur of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly; its grandeur does not exercise in grandeur, but in mediocrity." If O'Connor had held to this maxim as stoutly in his prose (which is often sheer gibberish) as he has in taking the "road to conformity," Public Baby would have been easier to take as a memorial to an ill-spent life...
Lost Shoal. Near Brisbane, Australia, Navigation Expert Joshua Peter Bell, author of Moreton Bay and How to Fathom It, ran his yacht aground in Moreton...