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...Gordon's diverse heroines share a common perception: love does not last; it is, like life itself, a temporary shelter. In such a context, wedding vows become highly problematic, promises made in defiance of experience and reason. Still, the women take the risk. The narrator of Now I Am Married concludes, "He is my husband, I say slowly, swallowing a new, exotic food. Does this mean everything or nothing? I stand with him in an ancient relationship, in a ruined age, listening beyond my understanding to the warning voices, to the promise of my own substantial heart." In Safe...
Artists are crazy, the rest of us like to think. And great artists are emotional idiots savants, charting the terra incognita of human experience by going over the edge. It is a lovely delusion. It excuses so many excesses and failures, gives rise to so many cautionary legends. George Gordon, Lord Byron incarnated one such fable: the poet as demon lover. He was dead at 36. Joe Orton, the English playwright who died in 1967, lived out another. He cruised danger as if it were a cute trick in a public gents', and was murdered at 34 -- for love! Nice...
Larry McMurtry' s latest novel asks, Is there a life after The Last Picture Show? -- Sort of, suggest Mary Gordon' s new short stories...
ADMINISTRATIVE EDITOR: Leah Shanks Gordon...
STAFF WRITERS: Gordon Bock, Janice Castro, Edward W. Desmond, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Lloyd Garrison, Richard Lacayo, Jacob V. Lamar Jr., Michael D. Lemonick, Sara C. Medina, Jamie Murphy, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Jill Smolowe, Wayne Svoboda, Susan Tifft, Amy Wilentz...