Word: authorly
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...poets participating in the reading are members of a poetry group that is headed and advised by Brock-Broido, author of A Hunger and The Master Letters, which is coming out in October...
...Romantic Generation (Harvard University Press; 723 pages; $39.95) is Rosen's demonstration of the value and pleasures of musicology. In the narrowest sense, the author explores a relatively brief period of music history--from the death of Beethoven (1827) to the death of Chopin (1849). Rosen applies not only his experience as an extraordinary pianist, but also his considerable grasp of such disciplines as art history, philosophy, literature and linguistics. The result is an elegant and altogether irresistible study that is destined to endure, along with an earlier, seminal work of Rosen's, The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven...
...best known for his blazing satires of academic life (Changing Places, Small World). Here he falters because he doesn't know TV operatives as well as he knows the profs he studied closely during his teaching career. Also, Tubby has a preoccupation with Kierkegaard, clearly important to the author but not to the reader...
Professor Coolidge is the author of Mill andMansion (1942), a socioarchitectural study ofLowell, Massachusetts, Studies on Vignola: AStudy of Central Italian Architecture in theMid-Sixteenth Century (1950), Patrons andArchitects: Designing Art Museums in the TwentiethCentury (1989) and Gustave Dore'sLondon (1994). He also wrote a number ofarticles on American architecture and Baroquesculpture. In 1983 the Journal of the Society ofArchitectural Historians dedicated an issue (March1983) to John Coolidge in honor of his 70thbirthday...
That is an awful lot of information about a room Carcaterra never saw. How did he obtain it? Well, the author says, details about the vendor were invented. "Is he Greek? Maybe. Is he Hispanic? Could be, whatever." No. "Whatever" won't do as the ruling principle of a book that purports to tell the truth...