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...confused mind of his protagonist using run-on sentences that can span several pages. The narrator’s thoughts may begin with the humorously carnal—“That Sunday I stayed in bed...fantasizing about Pilar, but not managing to concentrate long enough to jack off properly”—before bleeding into the violently physical—“[and] one testimony...of the civil registrar in a town called Totonicapán, an idiot whose foolish behavior led to them cutting off with a machete each and every...
...clear that when the "markets" are allowed to operate willy-nilly, the self-interest of politicians indebted to lobbyists will prevail. It also does nothing to reassure the middle-class taxpayers that at least five of McCain's closest campaign advisers were lobbyists for these institutions until very recently. Jack Lee, Interlochen, Mich...
...which you might say, so what? These are hardly grave faults. A new biography of a Bradman contemporary, however, takes the sideshow of trying to demythologize the batting maestro to a new level. The title, Jack Fingleton: The Man Who Stood Up to Bradman (Allen & Unwin; 302 pages) hints that the book is as much about Bradman as Fingleton, a gritty opening batsman who played 18 Tests for Australia in the 1930s and later penned several of cricket's most acclaimed books, including Brightly Fades The Don, a stylish account of Bradman's final appearances for Australia...
...From then until his death some 50 years later, Fingleton was The Don's most trenchant critic. He thought him a "little, churlish man" and accused him of everything from dishonesty to cowardice, not only through his books but in the letters and diaries that make up the Jack Fingleton Papers, stored in 27 boxes at the State Library of New South Wales. These documents, which include chummy correspondence with several Australian Prime Ministers, were a boon for Fingleton's biographer, Sydney journalist Greg Growden, who's written a book that would have Bradman, topical again in the centenary...
Chatterton: Jim Cameron's movie was a great movie and sometimes people have trouble differentiating fact from fiction and think Jack was really on the Titanic. But before that movie there was A Night to Remember. The Unsinkable Molly Brown was a Broadway play. The Titanic has woven itself into modern culture. When Bob Ballard found it 20 years ago, it was front page news. When we left the dock, we believed mostly what we saw in the film because it was the conventional wisdom of the day. We didn't know any better...