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...bought for their iPod and hit play. Slow piano filled with the car, and then Marc Cohen’s voice, and then the drums: “Put on my blue suede sho-oes, …touch down in the land of the De-elta blues?? I was walking in Memphis!” Sitting in the driver’s seat, Andrew looked out his window, embarrassed; a baseball game had just ended, and happy fans were passing the Volvo in droves. “Hold on,” he said to Matt...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eight Weeks in America | 9/29/2005 | See Source »

...problem, however, is that “Omaha Blues?? is not really his story...

Author: By Alexandra B. Moss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: As He Tracks His Parents’ Path, Ex-Times Editor Stumbles | 4/15/2005 | See Source »

...issue is not one of invention or hyperbole, of motive or execution, but rather one of focus. The country of memory Lelyveld establishes in “Omaha Blues?? feels like a homestead awarded him by chance, a claim better left unworked in favor of more fruitful ventures. His experience reporting overseas would seem to be rich territory upon which to build a memoir, but those are not the years and the events he chooses to survey in this text...

Author: By Alexandra B. Moss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: As He Tracks His Parents’ Path, Ex-Times Editor Stumbles | 4/15/2005 | See Source »

...latter part of “Omaha Blues?? functions as a tribunal intent on uncovering the vagaries of a misremembered, distorted, and often undocumented past outside of Lelyveld’s own experience, a Rashomon-like court set with the tasks of weighing evidence, collecting testimony, piecing together a mystery...

Author: By Alexandra B. Moss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: As He Tracks His Parents’ Path, Ex-Times Editor Stumbles | 4/15/2005 | See Source »

...result, however, is a work that itself reads as mysteriously pieced together. Lelyveld’s goals work at cross-purposes, leaving the reader confused and disappointed. “Omaha Blues?? shows how difficult it is to both conjure a ghost and purge restless memories within a single text. The endeavor is a valiant one, but it would have been better served by reserving its disparate aims for independent ventures...

Author: By Alexandra B. Moss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: As He Tracks His Parents’ Path, Ex-Times Editor Stumbles | 4/15/2005 | See Source »

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