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Excavating Pat's diary and the writer's own journal and talking to more than a hundred people on several continents, French grippingly develops an account of the writer's life as cool and undeluded as Naipaul's former friend Paul Theroux's was rivetingly emotional. Though he remains deeply sympathetic to Pat, who gave herself over without complaint to a man she was convinced was a genius, French is otherwise as plainspoken as his subject: the critic Clive James is "an ill-favoured Australian humorist." Naipaul's second wife Nadira he calls "dyslexic, emotional, fairly scandalous...
...been holed up in this building for a couple of days now,” he said still under curfew on Saturday, describing what was a harrowing experience for a country and for Harvard students living in Mumbai.Earlier Wednesday evening, on his way to a club with a friend, Singh walked by the Café Leopold, and heard that there been shooting there 30 seconds earlier. “We were crossing by when that happened,” he said. “We ignored it and thought it was a drug deal gone foul.”Singh...
...specializing in rare books and manuscripts, recently sold a first edition copy of Vladimir Nabokov’s provocative masterpiece to a bookseller in London for $50,000. The book is inscribed with an illustration of a butterfly and is addressed to George Hessen, Nabokov’s closest friend. “It was common for Nabokov to draw butterflies in inscribed copies of his books for those close to him,” said Nabokov scholar Professor Leland de la Durantaye, the Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of English. John W. Wronoski, the owner of Lame Duck, acquired...
...gone, the mid-90s jams from the likes of Smashmouth and Sugar Ray that he bumps disturb my studying and make me want to vomit up a Beanie Baby. I usually hear Piper leave for dinner at around 6 p.m., and he almost always comes back chatting with a friend, speaking in a cool, sophisticated timber that he definitely does not use when he’s on the phone with his mom. Their discussion is usually centered on the same thing: some girl named Janie. Or Jamie? Jenny? Either way, they’ve mentioned that she?...
...Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is a longtime family friend and mentor...