Word: authorly
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Susannah B. Tobin '00 is the actual author of Primary Colors...
Browne, a financial adviser and lecturer, is the author of nine best-selling books, including his most recent "Why Government Doesn't Work...
Even the most casual readers of Philip Roth's fabulously inventive novels, those slyly tangled weavings of fiction and autobiography, can get some sense that the author might not make an ideal mate. An unforgettable lover, perhaps; a witty dinner companion, absolutely. But Roth, as Alexander Portnoy's psychoanalyst might put it, clearly has some "issues" about women...
...Roth, though, Bloom sacrificed everything. Early in their relationship, for instance, the author told Bloom that he refused to share a home with Anna, and the girl, 18, was promptly kicked out. Then in 1993, Bloom writes, Roth spiraled into a severe, inexplicable depression. He was institutionalized and became deeply paranoid, accusing his wife of trying to poison him, dredging up misdeeds, real and imagined, and, in the end, divorcing her. With this sad memoir Bloom gets the last word--for now. But it is hard not to wonder what will happen when Roth turns his novelist...
...account, her efforts at Planned Parenthood were hindered not only by the forces of political conservatives and the religious right but also by some of her colleagues, balky and "ambivalent" about thrusting the organization into a more crusading role. "This thoughtful and instructive book is marred only by its author's tendency to sermonize," says TIME's Elizabeth Gleick. "If she explains once why she believes abortion to be an inalienable right, she explains it a dozen times. And given the readers likely to be interested in this notable woman's story, Wattleton is undoubtedly preaching to the converted...