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Allen's follow-up, It's Not Me, It's You, isn't nearly as cute, but grownup things rarely are. Born in London and raised there by an actor father and a film-producer mother (as a girl, Allen appeared as a lady-in-waiting in Elizabeth and was mentored by, among others, Joe Strummer), Allen, 23, appears to have embraced a slightly more serious view of what pop can be. Not that you can tell from the hooks. Produced by Greg Kurstin of the retro-pop duo the Bird and the Bee, the music robs every genre...
...about 7,000 down the road. Founded in 1890 as the Georgia State Industrial College for Colored Youth, Savannah State opened at its current site on a wooded salt marsh in 1891, 70 years before the state's universities were integrated. Its first president, Richard Wright Sr., was born into slavery...
Reading Barthelme, you'd think he crawled from the steaming wreckage of an asteroid that originated in the outer solar system. In fact, he grew up in Houston. Born in 1931, the son of an influential architect, he was a good-looking, headstrong kid with ironic eyebrows like circumflex marks. He was restless and rebarbative, full of jittery, sarcastic energy and the kind of confidence that forms only around a tiny seed of insecurity. After experimenting with college, journalism and marriage in Houston, he got sick of the provinces and lit out for New York City...
...avail. Heading home empty-handed, the day only gets worse when he finds out his “baby mom’s done changed locks.” Jobless, broke, and unlucky in love, our defeated hero sadly concludes, “Seems like I was born to lose,” leaving us to wonder how he’ll manage to keep his profession as a rapper, let alone an office job. —Roxanne J. Fequiere
...perspective from the previous generation. Corporal Leavitt, Termite’s father, makes his account almost a decade before the rest of the events of the book, an ocean away. His story draws to a close in South Korea precisely as Termite is being born in America. He has been shot in the spine and is dying in an underground tunnel, and his final thoughts are beautiful in their own respect. But his story serves only to explain Termite’s condition, as Leavitt’s dying vision becomes the telepathic stimulus for the images Termite draws. Termite?...