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...point she wonders: "How do I even know if I'm having a successful sex life?" Though most of the book depicts surfer-stewardess relationships among muddled narcissists, Seligson concludes that the "valiant gropings" of her subjects are truly heroic. She cannot join the free spirits herself, because demon jealousy still haunts her. But, she says, "I'll be rooting and cheering for them. From the sidelines...
...volume of Isaac Bashevis Singer's memoirs was published in March. A play, Teibele and Her Demon, co-authored by Singer and based on one of his short sto ries, has just premiered at Minneapolis' Guthrie theater. Now comes the novel Shosha. Few writers half Singer's 73 years are so prolific, and fewer still could write anything at all in the amiable chaos that surrounds him. "I get up in the morning," he says uncomplainingly, "and try to write between telephone calls...
...Wicked King Wicker," "The Twenty-Two Disciples of Hell" and "John Wheaties, Rapist and Suffocator of Young Girls." When finally captured last August, Berkowitz explained that he received orders to kill via a black Labrador retriever. The messages actually came, he explained, from a 6,000-year-old demon reincarnated as Berkowitz's next-door neighbor, Sam Carr. He even may have been, in addition to his killings, a mass arsonist. Introduced in evidence at the hearing were the murderer's diaries listing 1,400 fires, most set in The Bronx between 1974 and his capture...
...watch. The pharmacist can't see him, but Dona Flor can. Her consternation is splendid. As she rolls her eyes at him in anger and embarrassment, he sits cross-legged atop a large wardrobe chest beating time with his hands on his naked thighs and laughing like a demon...
Last week Confucius was well on his way to being restored as one of the fragrant flowers of Chinese culture. The People's Daily announced that the philosopher had been wrongly condemned as a "demon." After all, the party newspaper recalled, Mao had often quoted him, saying that everyone should "learn from Confucius' attitude of inquiring into everything." The Chinese press has also begun stressing that the Chairman shared Confucius' filial piety. In 1959, for example, Mao was said to have visited his parents' graves, "bowed and placed a bundle of pine twigs" on the tomb...