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...work on children's books inhabit a sort of literary shtetl," says Sendak. "When I won a prize for Wild Things, my father spoke for a great many critics when he asked whether I would now be allowed to work on 'real' books." It is a complaint voiced by almost all his colleagues. Their books may be of shorter than usual length, and child centered. But they are not childish, and most are as serious as any adult novel or history. It was because of the patronizing attitudes that greeted her work that Beatrix Potter denied creating...
...during Saturn's voyage around the sun. A superb telescope-maker, Huygens also discovered Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and calculated the time it took the ringed planet Huygens make a single journey around the sun (nearly 30 years). Wryly, Huygens speculated about the people who might inhabit these cold distant worlds: "It is impossible but that their way of living must be very different from ours," he wrote, "having such tedious winters...
...Wolfe has returned to his seat. The new collection of articles and cartoons reveals the author as social commentator and trend observer, ogling the pathetic goons and trendies who inhabit America. The centerpiece of the collection is an article that appeared in Esquire last year called "Entr'actes and Canapes," a series of short takes and pot shots about or at assorted trends, events and people of the seventies. Wolfe snipes at everything and everyone: the digital calculator, designer jeans, Roots, Jonestown, Woody Allen and the fall of South Vietnam...
Complicated historical ghosts inhabit the place. In the 1870s the fort was the headquarters for the U.S. Army's District of the Pecos. Across this territory over the centuries, Comanches and Kiowas and Kickapoos, Mexicans and Spanish and the other European strains all foraged, collided, killed, displaced, settled. Among the ghosts, a historical curio: the "Buffalo Soldiers," black cavalry troopers, ex-slaves mostly, who were recruited after the Civil War and sent west to help the whites get established in the inhospitable vastness. After 20 years, the work was done. In 1889 the troopers mounted up and rode away...
...talk about his much-publicized relationship with Rickie Lee Jones. Publications from People to Rolling Stone touted Waits and songstress Jones as an "item," with the British rock mag Melody Maker going so far as to call their marriage "imminent." Though Waits and Jones are undeniably close and inhabit a collective world of old cars, stale bars and life's generally seamy underside, sharing a coterie of self-styled low-lifers, whatever romantic interlude the two enjoyed seems to have waned. Rickie Lee Jones was the one subject Waits was intent on not discussing...