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Salinger drew from Sherwood Anderson, Isak Dinesen, F. Scott Fitzgerald and especially Ring Lardner, whose wise-guy voice you hear chiming in the snappy banalities and sometimes desperate patter spoken by Salinger's characters, a tone that found its way years later into the neurotic chatter of Woody Allen's New Yorkers. But Salinger bent it all into something new, a tone that drew from the secular and the religious, the worldly and the otherworldly, the ecstatic and the inconsolable. It's customary to assume that the seven Glass children - the Glass family, an intricate hybrid of showbiz and spirituality...
...Internet provide endless opportunities for free "cut-and-paste" material. In one year, my publication caught three writers who had lifted--almost directly--Internet information for use in their stories. One rather well-known writer had the audacity to appropriate an exquisite passage from the works of Isak Dinesen and weave it into his own story--unattributed, of course. Plagiarism never fails to induce a feeling of shock and deep disappointment. Fellow writers, editors and teachers, please continue to preach the word: plagiarism is wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong! JACKSON MAHANEY Lebanon...
...presents Judith Thurman, author of Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette (Knopf; 592 pages; $30), with both an embarrassment of riches and a Sisyphean task. Despite working on this book for nine years, Thurman, who won a National Book Award in 1983 for her biography of Isak Dinesen (and has been nominated again for this book), acknowledges that Colette remains an elusive figure, an author who hid herself in plain sight...
Harris' welcome return to Broadway -- where she has won a record five Tony Awards -- depicts Dinesen in her mid-70s, back in the house near Copenhagen where she was born. Its real subject is her 18 years as one man's wife and another's mistress on a farm near Nairobi, where the writer says she arrived a Dane and left a Masai. These events shaped the scenic, Oscar-winning Out of Africa, and playgoers who saw the movie may find this new version drably lacking in sense of place. Those who didn't, and who also haven't read...
...trouble starts with the very idea of the piece. Harris, 65, who commissioned it, chose a period of Dinesen's life suited to her own age. That sets her the daunting task of making audiences feel as urgent the joys and sorrows of decades ago. If any actress could make this work, Julie Harris could...