Word: bookings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...months passed. The unopened books began to spread over my floor like cactus roots thirsting for water. The only mail I received were overdue book notices. In one day I received five cards from Lamont. One read, "For Shame...
Self-Consciousness is neither a straightforward autobiography nor a decisive pre-emptive strike against future chronicles. There will surely be biographies of Updike someday, all of which, if they are any good, will draw heavily from this book of revelations. Updike's candor is not of the scandalous or titillating sort. Rather, the six essays assembled here piece together a fascinating self-portrait of an evolving sensibility, of a mind learning to love the world from which it feels, for several reasons, estranged...
...drizzle, trying to recapture his past. He enters familiar ground: "The street, the house where I had lived, seemed blunt, modest in scale, simple; this deceptive simplicity composed their precious, mystical secret, the conviction of whose existence I had parlayed into a career, a message to sustain a writer book after book." His first attempts to put this secret into words were, he gently suggests, sometimes misunderstood: "My own style seemed to me a groping and elemental attempt to approximate the complexity of envisioned phenomena and it surprised me to have it called luxuriant and self-indulgent; self-indulgent, surely...
...These courses aren't designed to teach you about the five most important books ever written," says Lewis. "They are to get you to look and think critically about whatever it is, whether it is a piece of art, a book, a poem, a philosophical question...
...whose recent works include a compilation of 7000 prostitutes' names from 18th century Holland and a book entitled The Tradition of Female Tranvesticism, asked the audience to analyze the relationship of the paintings in the context of attitudes towards women at the time...