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...when Chabon drops the midnight disease and simply shows us Grady as a lonely and loveable guy, he produces some wonderful scenes, both hilarious and genuinely touching. In the novel's finest section, Grady visits his in-laws' Passover Seder in a fruitless attempt to win back his wife, Emily. Emily is one of three Korean orphans adopted by a suburban Jewish couple, Irv and Marie, and this improbable family becomes for Grady the warm, loving home he desperately needs...

Author: By Adam Kirsch, | Title: Chabon's Wonder Boys Romps Through the Absurd | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

...football-obsessed lawyer Sonny Seiler to local eccentrics like maid Gloria Daniels, who conducted tours of her employer's mansion, occasionally supplementing them with renditions of Stormy Weather, the book is a portrait of a gossipy and class-conscious Savannah--mannered, monied and soaked to its soul in the finest bourbon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN GOTHIC, INC. | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

...bestseller list. The book, now being developed as a movie by Warner Brothers, chronicles a notorious 1981 Savannah murder case. But, Bellafante says, its host of eccentric characters amounts to "an engaging portrait of a gossipy and class-conscious Savannah -- mannered, monied and soaked to its soul in the finest bourbon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS . . . "MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL" | 3/24/1995 | See Source »

...iron plates from collapsing onto your throat but your own two arms...well, if that doesn't get the ol' fight-or-flight response going, then nothing will." For such hearty individuals, he recommends a diet of "Testosteroni, the Pasta for Men--testis-shaped pasta made from the finest durum wheat seminola and enriched with natural steer androgens...

Author: By Mark Leyner, | Title: Leyner Imprints on Paranoid World | 3/23/1995 | See Source »

Through June 4. "Dennis Miller Bunker: American Impressionist." Featuring 50 of he artist's finest works, this exhibition will be the first comprehensive exhibition accompanied by an extensive catalogue...

Author: By Kelly T. Yee, | Title: Not at Harvard | 3/23/1995 | See Source »

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