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Boston, perhaps more than any other American metropolis, is a city whose politicians and bureaucrats are kept honest by the press--a city where investigative reporting has a tangible, healthy influence on day-to-day policy-making. Just by publishing daily, the Herald keeps the level of this influence high...
This is a nostalgia gone delightfully mad, and the reader is happy to inhale it by the cubic yard. But it comes flirtatiously close to novelizing, a practice Keillor claims in a funny preface to have forsworn after one grotesquely bad unpublishable failure. He writes short pieces, he says, in...
The remark is made with airy irony, but the fact is that she went through an ugly-duckling stage in late childhood?glasses, fat cheeks, permed hair and a bossy, show-offy disposition, as she recalls it. "She was pretty ghastly," admits her younger brother "Third" (Harry Streep III), 30...
Here, at last, the big world started to act on the intense, self-dramatizing neophyte from Maine. "I've always had to overcompensate for my opinion of myself," Nevelson recalls. "I had to run like hell to catch up with what I thought of myself-if someone went six...
NONFICTION: American Dreams, Studs Terkel ∙ The Girl I Left Behind, Jane O'Reilly ∙ Merton: A Biography, Monica Furlong ∙ Naming Names, Victor Navasky ∙ Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers ∙ Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan ∙ Wayward Reporter: The Life of A.J. Liebling, Raymond...