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...distinctly sleazy case in point is The Rich Man's Table (Knopf; 273 pages; $23), an expertly written novel by Scott Spencer, author of Endless Love, that rips off the life of Bob Dylan. Most readers will recall that Dylan was a scraggly haired harmonica player with an edgy voice and an edgy mind, a Jewish kid from Minnesota who changed his name from, let's see, Zimmerman? And later converted to Christianity for a few years. The character who dominates Spencer's novel was born Stuart Kramer, transformed himself as "Luke Fairchild," and came from "the Midwest," not specifically...
...commanding presence in the U.S., the world's largest media market. "Random House is a dream for Bertelsmann," says Thomas Middelhoff, 44, who engineered the deal just six months before officially stepping into the CEO's job. "I was as surprised as everyone else," says Sonny Mehta, president of Knopf, a prestigious Random House division. "I thought about it and said it's a very logical partner to have...
...still in the dark about Edward O. Wilson and what he does for a living, you have already proved the point of his latest book, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (Knopf; 332 pages; $26). The modern mind, Wilson argues, is so compartmentalized by specialization and insular beliefs that we have lost faith in seeing the natural world as an integrated whole...
...Commandments (Knopf; 96 pages; $21) is the finest of the three volumes, a reputation-making wonder that isn't just the year's best book of poems but may also turn out to be the year's best book. Poised, architectural and built to last in the effortlessly disciplined tradition of W.H. Auden and Robert Lowell, the poems also have a sharp confessional kick worthy of Anne Sexton at her most bruising. In "My Mammogram," McClatchy, 52 (editor of the Yale Review and author of the libretto for Emmeline, a new opera by Tobias Picker that opens next week...
Paradise,published by Alfred O. Knopf, is Morrison's first novel since she won the Nobel Prize in 1993, and her seventh in a writing career that has included novels such asBeloved, Sula,andSong of Solomon.Morrison, a native of Lorain, Ohio, is currently a professor at Princeton, but has strong personal friendships with Gates and West...