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...believe I wrote it!" Gershwin's appetite for popularity, says his biographer, took him even further from the critics; he could never quite forsake the Hollywood sound stage for Carnegie Hall. When a producer accused him of aiming too high, Gershwin sent a reassuring message: "Rumors about highbrow music ridiculous . . . am out to write hits...
Comedy of Errors isn't exactly highbrow theater, and the Quincy House crew is wise not to treat it as such. But it is a lot of fun, a pleasant and entertaining hour-and-a-half spent with the Bard. Happy Birthday, Bill...
...least until now. Temporary Shelter presents 20 tales, a number of which have previously appeared in publications ranging from the highbrow (Antaeus, Granta) to the mass market (Redbook, Mademoiselle). The quality is uneven, the good mixed with occasional bits of fluff. No single story in this collection seems automatically destined for anthologies. Yet the book as a whole is a good deal more powerful and absorbing than any of its individual parts...
Still, for many the distinction between highbrow and low rent are increasingly arbitrary. "What we are beginning to see now is that people on both sides are taking with equal seriousness someone like a David Byrne," notes David White, executive director of Dance Theater Workshop, a favorite showcase for avant-garde choreographers in downtown Manhattan. Nor are there firm boundaries delimiting art forms anymore. Wilson, Glass and the others collaborate often, particularly in the realm of musical theater (and, by extension, film), which has become the avant-garde art form of choice. "There has been a general move toward...
...venal sinning that go into the makings of De Vries' unusual comic novels. Peckham needs Poppy's financial support, and she yearns for his intellectual tutelage. What ensues is a zesty tale of patron and patronizer in which the student learns her lessons so well that she gains a highbrow reputation, while Peckham's next novel is thought to be derivative of Poppy's daring new style. De Vries' freewheeling manner remains unmistakably his own and a durable delight...