Word: ecco
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Several schools of literary theory hold that readers have no business being interested in the private lives of authors; words on a page are utterly distinct from their creators, and the words are what matter. In Hallucinating Foucault (Ecco; 175 pages; $21), Patricia Duncker plays entertaining variations on these arguments and on the relationships between readers and writers...
...gloomy convalescence. His book in progress, a saga about the Borgias, stalled. He thought he might never write again. But transpose the Machiavellian city-state of the Borgias to a fortress in the Bronx, add a summer palace on Long Island and playgrounds in Las Vegas and Hollywood, and--Ecco!--the godfather of Mafia fiction is back in business...