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...Quad, home to Harvard University Press (HUP) and Sisler, its director. Just 140 new books a year make it past the four layers of internal editing, outside reviews and faculty consideration to see the light of print, while at least 10 times that number find their way to the circular file annually. And while rejection from the College doesn’t spell the end of one’s career—most applicants can rely on acceptance from a number of “safety” schools—there’s no such thing...
...Cooney's mother was brilliant and glamorous, a successful novelist who once won a beauty contest judged by Frank Sinatra. In Death in Slow Motion (HarperCollins; 251 pages), Cooney chronicles her mother's gradual, grinding dissolution--"death's warm-up act," Cooney calls it--describing the hallucinations and the circular conversations, the fits of rage and neediness that wreck her own life and get her mother kicked out of her nursing home, all in wry, learned prose. Even when Cooney resorts to lies (for her mother) and booze and Valium (for herself), she never stoops to self-pity. "I understand...
...source of income for locals, who live along prime beachfront real estate and spend their days plying the waters of the South China Sea. Instead of hawking trinkets on the beach, the town's children are commercial fishermen, too, venturing out to sea in thung chai, two-meter-wide circular baskets made of bamboo and pitch that can only be paddled standing up. Old superstitions linger: before a new boat makes its maiden voyage, families paint eyes on its bow. If left unpainted and hence blind, they believe, their vessel will never find fish...
...instance, Benny from the ’Burbs used the show to show off his elegant T’ai Chi moves. During “The Covex Dance,” Covex (turntables) rolled up one pant leg and shimmied on a single foot in a circular motion...
Subscriptions for the limited edition have already begun to flow in, although no previous detailed announcement of the work has been made, so that when the circular is issued next week a rush for the remaining copies is expected...