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The heart of the book is the slow unraveling of the faceless patient's life, educed by morphine and haunted by scenes from Cairo nights when it was necessary "to proceed into the plot of the evening, while the human constellations whirled and skidded around you." That is very much...
In Connecticut's Gun Valley, the deal was a godsend. To preserve 1,000 local jobs, state treasurer Francisco Borges said last month that Connecticut would participate in the buyout of Colt Firearms by purchasing a 47% stake in the company for $25 million. But the state has bought into...
Since sentiment in the state legislature is running strongly toward banning such weaponry, Borges plans to examine Colt's gun. If it is deemed an assault weapon, he plans to block its production. "I will exercise every option available as a significant shareholder," says he. "Assault rifles for civilian consumers...
In Wolfe's jeremiad, the "puppet-masters" of the American literary scene imported a new pantheon of foreign literary gods -- Jorge Luis Borges, Milan Kundera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The "headlong rush" to get rid of realism, Wolfe complains, resulted in statements like that of experimental novelist John Hawkes, "I began...
Her enthusiasm for that work is infectious. In person, she is shy yet affable, serious but quick to smile, and full of energy; she doesn't so much walk as dart. Her private life, centered on a Bowery loft with the sculptor Peter Boynton and a cat named Sam, is...