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Garson Kanin, 65, playwright, Hollywood and Broadway director, has a new credit. His latest novel consists of 27 years' worth of work-journal entries. The notes are on a fictive California stage actor named John J. Tumulty, dead ten years when the research starts in 1940. The diarist (coyly named Garson Kanin) tries to create a screenplay from the biographical data. But as Kanin turns and sifts his evidence, mysteries rise from "facts." Conflicting testimony comes from people who knew Tumulty (who bears a resemblance to John Barrymore), among them B.D. (Big Director), the actor's adopted...
Racial Fantasies. During the late thirties, the hero and his wife sought privacy in England and France. While Europe slid toward war, Mrs. Lindbergh enjoyed "the happiest years of my life." There was an idyllic English country cottage leased from English Critic and Diarist Harold Nicolson where she began her writing career, raised a second son and prepared for the arrival of her third. Later, the family sojourned on a remote island off the French coast...
...method is the close--sometimes too close--analysis of prose texts of some 50 female authors. Her critical eye scans the writings of women ranging in talent from Ellen Glasgow to Virginia Woolf, in commitment from diarist Arvazine Cooper to Simone de Beauvoir, and in vision from the inventor of Ma Kettle to the creator of Martha Quest...
...like Rubashov in Darkness at Noon: at best, he's a composite of Bertrand Russell and William O. Douglas and maybe some World War I pacifist like Roger Baldwin. All we know is that we're supposed to have read about him in the newspapers and that like another diarist. Leon Trotsky, he finds old age creeping up on him suddenly but would rather talk about more public matters...
...this late stage in the Pepys-watching game, the diarist has become his own literary character whom biographers must attack or defend according to their tastes and their times. To 19th century moralists, for instance, Pepys was that most off-putting of hypocrites: a pious lecher - a Uriah Heep who could preach sanctimoniously to a fellow tomcat while he himself was goatishly seducing pretty Mrs. Bagwell, the carpenter's wife...