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Loyal readers of such Fisher classics as How to Cook a Wolf, The Gastronomical Me, Consider the Oyster and With Bold Knife and Fork are familiar with her life, which includes three marriages and two daughters. Born in Michigan, she was raised in Whittier, Calif., where her father Rex Kennedy was a newspaper editor and publisher. "I am a fifth-generation writer," she says with pride, "even though now I dictate into a cassette. It's awful...
Both brothers go under the knife and never emerge. Life is unfair, and fiction can be even worse. But what transpires in a novel need not be irreversible. So Henry may survive instead and go to Israel, where he joins a settlement on the West Bank and tries to find, or lose, himself in Jewish history. Nathan may come out of the operating room a new man, get married and move to England with his lovely and reassuringly pregnant wife. Other variations surface. Perhaps Nathan alone dies, and Henry, going through his late brother's effects, comes upon the manuscript...
...SHARPEST KNIFE The one belonging to Kitty Kelley, whose biography, His Way, punctured the image, and perhaps the ego, of Frank Sinatra...
...trial involved payoffs in an obscure New York City agency, but the cast of characters and sordid details made for great drama. Here was Donald Manes, borough president of Queens and a powerful Democratic Party boss who killed himself by thrusting a kitchen knife into his chest last March just as the inquiry got under way. Here was Bronx Democratic Leader Stanley Friedman, an equally mighty politico who was accused of bribing Manes to arrange a city contract with a company in which Friedman held stock. The case pitted Manhattan U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, a prosecutor with political ambitions, against...
...cast and the varied talents into a unified voice. He drills them on breathing and on the peculiarities of sung pronunciation. At verse 9 of Psalm 37, he interjects, "This is my favorite: 'For evildoers shall be cut off. ' With a big t before the 'off.' Crisp as a knife." He is relentlessly attentive to the details that weave together the different parts: "Everybody, on the bottom of page 3, let's make that a dotted quarter note with an eighth rest, so we can hear the soprano entrance...