Word: authority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Andryusha worked on his memoirs in Gorky, periodically rewriting sections. Not because of the author's severity or the grumblings of his first reader, first editor and first typist (all of them me) -- no! Because of another's will and another's hand. Sections kept vanishing. Once from the apartment in Moscow; once stolen along with his bag at the dental clinic in Gorky; once from our parked car, which had been broken into, with Andrei knocked out by some drug. Each time he rewrote his book. Each time there was something new -- sometimes better written, sometimes not, sometimes...
Senior Writer Otto Friedrich mined some 7,500 words from the book's 272 pages to produce the compelling story that appears in this week's issue. For Reporter-Researcher Sally Donnelly, the task of verifying the story was made even more challenging by the fact that the author could not be reached. Donnelly, who majored in Soviet studies at the London School of Economics, was struck by the relentlessness and brutality of the KGB. "But in their own way," she notes, "Bonner and Sakharov are every bit as relentless in fighting the system." Friedrich agrees: "It is a story...
Earl Peckham is the serious author of The Sorry Scheme of Things Entire and The Ghastly Dinner Party, "an unsparing delineation of the worm-eaten psyche of modern man as exemplified in the subcutaneous motivations propelling the social lives of urban people whose surfaces are rotten enough." Sorry Scheme sold three copies. Earl's girlfriend Poppy McCloud writes best-selling romances like Break Slowly, Dawn and commands $2 million advances. What do these vastly different writers have in common, besides a publisher named Dogwinkle? Well, there is sex, which the pun-loving Peter De Vries, 76, might call the great...
...proposal from the only man she will ever truly love in order to nurse her feeble grandfather through his final days. A saint? No, only a Danielle Steel heroine, traveling through life with a stiff moral code and a wardrobe of backless satin dresses. Throughout her 20th book, the author honors the great Late Show tradition: in Dodsworth (1936) Walter Huston sighed to Ruth Chatterton, "Did I remember to tell you today that I adore you?" In Casablanca (1942), as the Nazis marched on Paris, Bergman asked Bogart, "Was that cannon fire or is it my heart pounding?" Driscoll tells...
Putting the names Brideshead and Waugh on the same dust jacket may be inspired marketing. But Auberon is Evelyn's son, and this book has nothing to do with nostalgic memories of aristocrats toting Teddy bears. Brideshead Benighted offers, instead, roughly a decade's worth of the author's columns for the Spectator, a British weekly magazine. Waugh does not admire most of his countrymen, including union leaders ("oafs") and contemporary youth ("a lost generation without even the resources to amuse themselves"). He also takes potshots at the Archbishop of Canterbury, Princess Anne and a long line of politicians. Readers...