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...Still, the 40th anniversary can be celebrated only at the Cafe de la Mairie, and though it has become a bit fancy -- the old goldfish tank has disappeared, along with the chessboard -- it is still a neighborhood cafe. It bears its literary traditions lightly. It hardly remembers that Saul Bellow used to drink here, and William Faulkner too, or that Djuna Barnes set several scenes in Nightwood here. In fact, when the proprietor was once asked what she remembered of Barnes, she said she had never heard of her. But the two coupes of icy Pommery tasted grand. Hemingway...
Similar pitfalls await other writers and publishers who help themselves to unpublished sources. This month St. Martin's Press recalled reviewers' galleys of Saul Bellow: A Biography of the Imagination after Bellow objected to portions that were partly based on his letters, including some he wrote to author Ruth Miller. "I'm having a little trouble with that one," the Nobel laureate told the Chicago Tribune, referring to the book. So is Miller, a friend of the novelist for more than 50 years...
...questions about the durability of current security arrangements. Writing in the Philippine Star, former Aquino press secretary Teodoro Benigno, a respected political analyst, posed a provocative scenario. "The rules of the big power game will change," he predicted, "as America weakens, Japan resurges, and the Chinese giant starts to bellow." The 21st century, in his view, will be "an Asian century." Even if he proves right, the U.S. military presence might help determine whether the coming changes will be violent or peaceful...
...With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories by Saul Bellow (1984). Another American Nobel laureate presents his patented array of characters -- big thinkers and big shots -- with typical energy and verve. The author here makes limitations of length a positive virtue; the pressure of high-toned ideas passing through the minds of flawed, often comic figures gives the impression of short stories that are bursting at the seams...
...bats to the gullible public. In 1973 McGuane upped the ante with Ninety-Two in the Shade, a dazzling novel of free- floating angst and male brinkmanship set in the Florida Keys. Ninety-Two was nominated for a National Book Award, and McGuane became, in the words of ^ Saul Bellow, "a kind of language star." Critics compared the 34-year-old author to Faulkner, Hemingway, Chekov and Camus. The big time -- and Tinseltown -- beckoned. McGuane became a celluloid hotshot, penning scripts for Rancho Deluxe and Tom Horn among other movies. In exchange for writing 1976's The Missouri Breaks, which...