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...tell you about ..." So begin the e-mail missives of Hiroshi Sakamoto, the septuagenarian survivor of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki, whose love of haiku poetry is later parlayed into an appreciation of all things modern. In Gail Jones' seductive new novel, his captive audience is young Australian Alice Black, who is researching her book, The Poetics of Modernity. And over the course of Dreams of Speaking (Vintage; 214 pages), a succession of machines are summoned, from the Xerox copier to the neon tube, to glow in the novel's velvety darkness. Here the things which bring people together also...
...Author Gail Sheehy has been examining human behavior for three decades. In 1976, she wrote her breakthrough book, Passages, which looks at life's transitions and has sold 5 million copies. In her new book, Sex and the Seasoned Woman, Sheehy, 68, tackles a taboo topic: the sexuality of older women and how they can live a long passionate life. Sheehy spoke with TIME's ANDREA SACHS...
...those who love literature, the 73-year-old Folger Shakespeare Library, tel: (1-202) 544 4600; www.folger.edu, has the world's largest collection of the Bard's memorabilia and printed works-even beating collections in his native England, says director Gail Kern Paster. The first folio from 1623 is one of the Folger's most prized Shakespeare rarities. There are also non-Shakespeare engravings, artifacts and writings from 1500 to 1800. Special exhibits have included letter writing-which featured correspondence among sweethearts and an unopened letter written by King George I-from the same time frame. The library houses...
...being a silversmith, Revere was a dentist). For those who love literature, the 73-year-old Folger Shakespeare Library, tel: (1-202) 544 4600; www.folger.edu, has the world's largest collection of the Bard's memorabilia and printed works - even beating collections in his native England, says director Gail Kern Paster. The first folio from 1623 is one of the Folger's most prized Shakespeare rarities. There are also non-Shakespeare engravings, artifacts and writings from 1500 to 1800. Special exhibits have included letter writing - which featured correspondence among sweethearts and an unopened letter written by King George I - from...
...Katrina roared toward New Orleans, more than a million people fled the area, but 29 of the city's littlest, most sickly babies were left to ride out the storm in University Hospital. Many, born prematurely, were too weak to make the trip. Gail Gibson's job was to make sure they stayed alive--and Katrina posed an extraordinary challenge, isolating Gibson, her staff and their charges for five days. The incubators had stopped working, so the nurses had to carry the babies in their arms most of the time to keep them warm. Moved PermanentlyMoved Permanently