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...Ashbery's latest collection, Girls on the Run: A Poem (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999), epitomizes what Shoptaw calls "a move from the mature to premature...
...mainly female) tellers of fairy tales that is filled with such tidbits as why Bluebeard's beard was blue--it is the color of both desire and melancholy, "the marvellous and the inexplicable." Now Warner has published a sequel, No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 435 pages; $35), about (mainly male) giants, ogres and devils and what they can tell us about society's fears...
GIRLS ON THE RUN: A POEM By John Ashbery Farrar, Straus and Giroux...
...FULL By Tom Wolfe Farrar, Straus and Giroux...
...lists them, it becomes clear why readers have had to wait 11 years for A Man in Full (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 742 pages; $28.95) and how demanding the self-imposed Wolfe regimen of putting that book together actually was. "First, I tried to take the easy way out by setting most of the new novel in Manhattan, the same locale I'd used in Bonfire. I didn't realize until 1995 that this approach wasn't working and that I was repeating myself. Second, I always recommend to people who ask me for helpful hints on writing that they start...