Word: authors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Author Padgett Powell, 35, has weathered this ordeal nicely. To be sure, a few readers will complain that his second novel fails to live up to the promise of Edisto, which drew raves and comparisons to Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye when it appeared in 1984. A Woman Named Drown is not going to remind anyone of Anna Karenina. On the other hand, Powell's new book picks up smoothly where its predecessor left off, which is not, given the level of skills evident throughout Edisto, a bad place to begin...
Throughout his private and public career, Casey had been supremely self- confident and aggressive. Born in New York City, he was a postwar success as an attorney, a university lecturer on law and the author of humdrum books like How Federal Tax Angles Multiply Real Estate Profits. Not a humble man, he once boasted, "I was never in a law firm where I wasn't bringing in 75% of the business...
...microminis, those brazen bumper stickers that show nothing but the leg and require a companion-bodyguard to be worn safely. "The new minis are not thigh-high, the kind where if you drop a quarter on the ground, you have to leave it there," says Lynn Schnurnberger, author of the upcoming Let There Be Clothes: 40,000 Years of Fashion Unveiled. "This batch didn't come from a revolutionary, free-sex period. They are cool, pretty, definitely not overly suggestive...
...Belles Lettres Papers, Simmons' parting shot, should stir up the small world of gentlemanly journalism, although one might ask, How closely related is the author to his narrator? "Nobody could possibly confuse me with Frank Page," says the author. "He is loyal, wise and discreet...
Peyser, former editor of the Musical Quarterly and author of an earlier warts-and-all biography of Composer-Conductor Pierre Boulez, professes to admire the manifest gifts of Bernstein the musician, but clearly she finds Bernstein the man repugnant. How else to account for incident after unpalatable incident that depicts him in the most unflattering light? Here he is, sharing a panel in Minneapolis and expounding publicly on a well-known colleague's adult circumcision. Here he is at a party at Indiana University in 1982, obscenely serenading the dean of the music school...