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...music at Harvard means necessarily not doing music all the time. “Harvard musicians have a similar mindset. They’re all really passionate about [music], but they try and think about getting involved in other things too,” he says. Other things in Fox??s schedule include volunteering with the PBHA program HARMONY where he teaches piano lessons to a devoted student, who, according to Fox??s roommate and HARMONY’s director, almost cried when Fox had to miss a lesson...
...what your favorite athlete sees, a la Being John Malkovich. How cool would it be to be Rick Fox and run the break with Shaq and Kobe four times a week? And how cool would it be to stay home and go one-on-one with Fox??s wife, Vanessa Williams, the other three...
...Fox??s writing is sparse and measured, careful not to reveal too much, yet somehow seeming to reveal all. She acknowledges the limitations of her own memory, even while writing so confidently from it. “The room is always sunny in memory, though it must have rained and snowed some days,” she says of the Canadian finishing school where she was sent for a year. Her characteristic eye for detail is in full effect, and her snapshot portraits of people are often brilliantly perceptive. Of the actress Stella Adler, with whom Fox spent...
Other characters loom large throughout the book, not in their own right, but as anchors in Fox??s sea of impermanence, however unfit for the job they may have been. Fox??s mother is portrayed as unrelentingly cruel and unstable, a woman who hurled a glass of water at her young daughter’s back and begrudged her grown daughter a previous gift of a picture of her grandfather. “How could it be that Elsie was enough of an organic being to have carried me in her belly for a term...
...bitterness or blame in Borrowed Finery. The quote that serves as a preface to the book—“After so long grief, such nativity!” from Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors—is a fitting testament to both Fox??s past and her present. Borrowed Finery comes at a time when Fox??s adult fiction is enjoying a rather remarkable resurgence, spurred in large part by the newly prominent author Jonathan Franzen, who discovered Fox??s 1970 novel Desperate Characters in the library at Yaddo...