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...TIME: With Steve Martin?s name on the dustjacket, some readers will be expecting comedy. Your shorter fiction is laugh-out-loud funny ? as I can testify, by citing complaints from people near me when I?ve read it. "Shopgirl" is different, of course. If you were to tape-record someone reading this book in an otherwise silent room, then play back the tape, what would you hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: "Turn Around. I'm Now Sensitive." | 10/6/2000 | See Source »

...tiny watercolor Mexican town huddles beneath pastel pink and purple mountains on the dustjacket of Harriet Doerr's new novel, Consider This, Senora. An azure bubble of a church dome, crimson and cream splashes of title roofing and whitewashed walls merge in a hazy dreamscape technicolor. The cover seems to promise a self-indulgent, romanticized odyssey into a picture perfect landscape. But the text within reveals nothing of the sort: Doerr's crisp, pacific prose never lapses into kitsch other-worldliness in this captivating portrait of gringos in small-town Mexico...

Author: By Edward P. Mcbride, | Title: Consider Reading This | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

...dustjacket calls Edward Dahlberg's Because I Was Flesh an autobiography--but the inadequacy of this label constantly astounds the reader. For Dahlberg's autobiography is also biography, philosophy and lyric poetry...

Author: By Heather J. Dubrow, | Title: Edward Dahlberg's Philosophical, Lyrical Autobiography | 9/29/1964 | See Source »

From his hermitage in Cornish, N.H., publicity-proscribing Author J. D. (The Catcher in the Rye) Salinger, 42, proclaimed a new declaration of independence. "It is my rather subversive opinion," he wrote for the dustjacket of his forthcoming book, Franny and Zooey, "that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working years." With customary obliqueness, Salinger pointedly failed to state what he considered a writer's most valuable property, proceeded to brush off the usual biographical data with the uncandid note: "My wife has asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 4, 1961 | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

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