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...that he was at this dinner because he imposed himself on people, and the Sandrine’s waiter who motioned for him to quiet down would not argue. He offered a poem, “Transactions,” about an elephant trainer who got traded to another circus, and a loud and funny impression of his Italian grandparents...
...writing a thesis) or the “f-word” (plans for the future are comfortably vague and pretty much wide open at this point). “I’ll either be married with three kids. Or pursuing my life long dream of joining the circus or of becoming a male model…” he says, rattling off an extensive list of far-fetched hypotheticals for this time next year...
...Danny Fox Quartet (Quintet or Trio, depending on the night) that plays local shows, including appearances at Club Passim, Loeb House receptions, Cabot housemaster birthday parties and other assorted events. So a foray into the jazz music world is a definite possibility if the whole joining the circus thing doesn’t work out. Instead of tickling the ivories professionally, however, Fox could also see himself chopping seven dozen onions a night at a culinary institute or working in a restaurant. He spends every Tuesday from 3 pm to midnight as a line cook at Casablanca, perfecting...
Egan’s first novel, The Invisible Circus (1995), received critical acclaim and was recently made into a film starring Cameron Diaz and Jordana Brewster. Look At Me, her second novel, is the product of more than five years of work. As a contributor to publications such as The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker and Harper’s, Egan has written frequently on issues of image, identity and technology. Much of the research for these articles handily doubled as research for the novel...
...take the superficial attractiveness, thank you. For one thing, it avoids the insanity of bringing Osama to trial in the U.S. or at the Hague. Just imagine the scene. It would be the biggest media circus in history. It would make the O.J. trial look like a school-board truancy hearing. It would offer the greatest platform for the propagation of a murderously evil ideology since Weimar Germany launched Hitler's career with the 1923 Munich trial for his pathetic beer-hall putsch...