Word: authorly
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Literary critic John Shoptaw, an instructor of literature at Yale University and author of On the Outside Looking In: John Ashbery's Poetry,describes Ashbery as "the most intellectually exciting of many living poets...
...Literary critic John Shoptaw, an instructor of literature at Yale University author of On the Outside Looking In: John Ashbery's Poetry (Harvard University Press, 1994), describes Ashbery as "the most intellectually exciting of many living poets...
...with the men of the Crimson. Scot Levitt,who rose high in the hierarchy of Life. Tony Lewisof the Times, Church Bailey, newspaperman, author,newly named to the board of the Neiman Fellows.Burt Glinn, the sprightly soul who became a Lifeand Magnum photographer. Dozens of other who wenton to every field of publishing and some who brokecompletely to enter law and medicine and politics.And every one a nice...
...lack of science about the effects of these drugs on childhood development is the reason the FDA has required all manufacturers of SSRIs that treat depression to conduct studies on the subject. Says Dr. Peter Kramer, professor of psychiatry at Brown University and author of Listening to Prozac: "Anyone who thinks about this problem is worried about what it means to substantially change neurotransmission in a developing brain. We don't know if these kids would compensate on their own over time and if by giving them these medicines we are interfering with that compensatory mechanism...
David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (Little, Brown; 274 pages; $24) is a mixed bag of 23 essays and short stories that display a range of intellect and talent that is unseemly for any one writer to have, let alone show off. Like the author's earlier work, this collection is designed to keep readers from getting too comfortable. You know the feeling if you had trouble keeping up with the plot lines, arcana and footnotes that spread like kudzu through the 1,000 pages of Wallace's 1996 novel, Infinite Jest...