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...Lives must go on, I said. There are many experiences to be had. But on the night before my own flight out, I sat down at my desk. My bags were packed, my room was straightened, and I had even thought to leave a picture of myself on my dresser. It was a photo shot by a friend last February, just as I was about to take my first steps into Harvard. I liked the neat symbolism of it all, you know, leaving that particular picture as I prepared to take my first real steps into the University...
Animated only begins to describe Tama Janowitz's style, as readers of Slaves of New York and A Cannibal in Manhattan have already discovered. THE MALE CROSS-DRESSER SUPPORT GROUP (Crown; $20) continues the author's carom through the Big Apple. This time it's a send-up of bizarre life-styles as seen through the hungry eye of Pamela Trowel, advertising director of Hunter's World magazine. Pam is miscast not only in her career but also as a sex object and surrogate mom of Abdhul, a stray who looks like a child but talks like a grownup...
...this time it's a double. They have enrolled at Montclaire Elementary, where Nicole is turning into a math whiz. Brandon, who has befriended every kid in class, is proud of his creative writing. But he is proudest of his new home. "I have my own room, a dresser where I keep my clothes," says he. "I got blinds and a teddy bear...
...well, a careful dresser, an elocution student struggling to improve his diction and a citizen eager to put his hit man's skill to patriotic use; he fondly nurtured a plan to assassinate Mussolini. Above all, he was bedazzled by the mutual admiration that developed between him and the movie stars and moguls he met after moving to Los Angeles to oversee his syndicate's West Coast gambling interests. That he was subject to outbursts of violently sociopathic, possibly psychopathic, rage in no way damaged his self- estimation and probably enhanced his glamour in Hollywood's eyes. In a town...
Nelson grew up on Park Avenue, heir to a frozen-food business in Brooklyn. In my brother's class at school, he acted richer than the other rich kids and was known more as a snappy dresser than a brain. Math was particularly tough for him -- an F in ninth grade and a D+ that summer; a C in 10th-grade algebra, but an F in geometry. In the 11th grade he pulled math up to C and C- (matching steady Cs in English), but failed citizenship. ("And that would eliminate. . .," his American history teacher paused, in a lecture about...