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Firth plays an English novelist, teaching literature at a Los Angeles college in 1962 and grieving - delicately, obsessively, heroically - for his lover of 16 years, dead in a car crash. Seeing no reason for his life to go on, George meticulously rehearses his own suicide, by gunshot, but has trouble finding a practical or aesthetically elegant way to carry it off. So over the course of a long day, he listens idly to his colleagues' worries over the Cuban missile crisis; has dinner with his oldest friend, a London socialite (Julianne Moore, never more glamorous); and indulges some erotic flattery...
...Danish poet Inger Christensen, who died in early January of this year at 73. Denise Newman’s translation of “Azorno,” released in January, marked the first time since its publication in the late 1960s that the novel has been available in English, and while the book’s experimental nature makes its absence rather unsurprising, the arrival of its 105 pages is long overdue.To crystallize the plot of “Azorno” is to reduce the atmosphere that makes it beautiful and in which its quavering logic...
...remember I was on a trip in Mexico with some friends and to embarrass me, some of my friends started telling people around that I might be going to Harvard,” Iannuzzi says. “Random people, who didn’t even know English, knew what Harvard was, so I knew right away that it wasn’t just number one for me, it was number one for everyone...
Besides weighing in on a discussion on judicial philosophy, Justice Souter reminisced on lectures he had attended in Emerson Hall--where yesterday's event occurred-- and named English Professor Louis Menand as a personal hero...
...afternoon I might browse the antique and secondhand shops in Cukurcuma and stop by my favorite English-language bookstore, Pandora, tel: (90-212) 230 0962. I like reading in the tranquil gardens of the Archeology Museum, tel: (90-212) 520 7740, where you can enjoy a Turkish coffee amid the sound of ferry horns and friendly cats. For dinner I'd go to Simdi, tel: (90-212) 252 5443, in Asmalimescit, which serves good food in a relaxed, convivial atmosphere. Try the grilled kofte. (See Watch TIME's video "Turkey's Unconventional Muslim Minority...