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This period is the subject of Roger Rosenblatt's insightful new book, Coming Apart: A Memoir of the Harvard Wars of 1969. Although he is currently a contributing editor of Time and The New Republic and the author of such books as Children of War, Rosenblatt in 1969 was firmly imbedded within Harvard academia. Having recently received his PhD in English from Harvard, he was the newly minted Head Tutor of Dunster House, a Briggs-Copeland Instructor, and the director of the freshman writing program. Popular among students and well-regarded by his peers, Rosenblatt gained the reputation...
There are moments in this imagined memoir when the author creates a credible impression of Jesus. Most of these occur early, during the period least thoroughly covered by the four Gospels. Mailer's Jesus writes movingly of his time as an apprentice carpenter: "So my trade became my pride, and I knew respect for the tools in my box. A rasp, a plane, a hammer, an auger, a gimlet, an adze, a cubit rule, a saw, and three chisels for paring, as well as a gouge--all were mine. And my knowledge of how to treat wood became another tool...
...Mace, several hundred dollars in cash and a set of brass knuckles, were three computer disks. It has been reported that although the disks don't add up to a book and are unlikely to be published, they describe a scene almost exactly like that of the author's death--right down to the pistol and the holed wall--in which white racist militia members hang a detective-story writer outside his office window. The difference is that on the disks the hero climbs back up the rope and evens up matters with the pistol. In real life, however, dead...
...threads an intricate and somewhat overstuffed story of two detectives, partners, one black, one white, through the sweltering heat and gathering racial tensions of a deadly Chicago summer. The novel works as a kind of Venality Fair--it's a shade better than pretty good--mainly because even the author's minor characters--sleazy black gang bangers and brain-fried white neo-Nazis--are expertly sketched. And the two detectives are well drawn, without much Butch-and-Sundance romanticizing. They like and respect each other, yet there is a gulf between them that is not race prejudice but simply...
DIED. CAROL BOTWIN, 68, sexologist author and columnist; of cancer; in New York City. An infidelity expert, Botwin bared eye-popping findings that 60% to 75% of married men cheat at least once and 40% of wed women seek an extramarital relationship...