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Soman's In the Know: A Pop Culture Compendium...
SOMAN'S IN THE KNOW: A Pop Culture Compendium...
...Andre Daspre, spent almost 20 years assembling nearly two decades of the author's notes. About a third of the book is a collation of these notes--ranging from complete episodes and analyses, to the bare structural outlines of proposed plot, to a section entitled "The Black Box:," a compendium of aphorisms, inspirations and notes on his work. Though the disjunction between du Gard's clear and disarming prose and these scattered fragments at first is disarming, the tone never changes. Accustomed to following Maumort's (and du Gard's) scrutiny of his life, the reader only takes one step...
...Naomi is the youngest narrator and the compendium of three generations of tenement dysfunction. While mysteriously drawn to her great-grandmother and the mystery of the egg, Naomi firmly inhabits the modern world. Her thoughts are descriptive rather than analytical, and this, combined with her youthful naivete, fail to give the reader any reason to feel an emotional stake in her future...
...strip ever to win a Pulitzer Prize, will one day make a great curriculum for a U.S. History class (Watergate, Iran/Contra, Desert Storm, etc.). Over the last almost 29 years, Doonesbury (through Trudeau), tackling such social issues as AIDS, homelessness and education, has put together a visual and verbal compendium of life's great questions and answers: how to treat people justly in a changing society, how to keep public figures honest, and how to laugh at issues that, without the help of humor, would otherwise overwhelm us with grief and despair...