Word: forget
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...Houghton Mifflin; 222 pages; $24), a collection of six Stone short stories that have appeared in magazines plus a previously unpublished novella that gives the new volume its name. All seven pieces demonstrate, in concentrated form, the qualities that make Stone's novels so harrowing, exhilarating and impossible to forget...
...stuck with the show, not so much out of interest as sheer curiosity. Brother shot illegitimate brother, children stabbed wild-eyed parents and family pets went berserk in a mad freakshow frolic before my very eyes. Forget Barnum & Bailey, I thought, southern Florida is where it's at: a world where suspects get "Mirandized" and the camera never stops rolling, even when characters appear wounded or in various states of undress...
This book is excellent reading for anyone who rejects Wallace Stevens' distaste for "the dreadful sundry of this world." And for anyone with a thick skin and an acute sense of irony. There are lots of laughs-out-loud here. But don't forget to meet the author on his own terms. As the colony rules say, "YOU MUST BE NUDE...
...quickly we forget. Fifty years after Robinson broke the color line in major league baseball, far too many people, both black and white, fail to understand the significance of his achievement. That includes young, hugely paid major league superstars like White Sox first baseman Frank Thomas, who appeared in an ESPN show about Robinson last month. When asked whether he thought much about Robinson, he replied, "Not really...I'm really more about the New Age." It was, as Washington Post columnist Michael Wilbon observed, an occasion for sadness and embarrassment for Thomas' ignorance...
...Houghton Mifflin; 222 pages; $24), a collection of six Stone short stories that have appeared in magazines plus a previously unpublished novella that gives the new volume its name. All seven pieces demonstrate, in concentrated form, the qualities that make Stone?s novels so harrowing, exhilarating and impossible to forget. His people either find themselves in, or get themselves into, situations of understated but hair-raising peril. In Porque No Tiene, Porque Le Falta, two druggy friends of an equally druggy American poet living in Mexico want to take him to see a nearby volcano. ?The way,? the poet...