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...We’re doing a big lit. drop tonight in Joyce’s home base—Milton-Randolph-Stoughton,” Ruben said...
...best that his house, also home to Tom Wolfe, Scott Turow and the poet Seamus Heaney, has issued in 15 years. Next there's a movie deal from the producer Scott Rudin, whose credits include Wonder Boys and A Civil Action. Then you get a dust-jacket photo lit in a way that turns your facial bones into Alpine escarpments. You also get a good-size spread--this one--in TIME, the magazine your late father always wanted to see you in. And in that story you get a sentence he would have loved: The Corrections...
...play and had to be alerted by spectators if the ball was coming their way. As the only male in our party, I was given a pair of scissors to cut a red ribbon tied around the stumps. Saffron paste was daubed on my forehead, a candle was lit, sugared sweets were given to me, a bat was put in my hand and the first ball was bowled...
...least high spirits, informed the choice and telling of the tales. Typically, the books selected for adaptation were melo-dramas and adventure stories: "Treasure Island," "The Count of Monte Cristo," "Sherlock Holmes," "A Tale of Two Cities," "The Thirty-nine Steps," "The Man Who Was Thursday" - Great Lit Lite. It was very much a boy?s game (Moorhead and Arlene Francis got the rare women?s roles) and the Mercury actors would play it for all its worth, with a thrill in the voice and, one imagines, a smile in the eyes. The tone was nothing so easy or derisive...
Then in October Joanna Cotler books publishes a Spiegelman co-edited (with Francoise Mouly) anthology, "Little Lit: Strange Stories for Strange Kids." This hardcover follows the formula of last year's "Little Lit," a collection of off-kilter kids comix created by noted authors with and without comix experience. The new line-up includes work by Charles Burns, Maurice Sendak, Jules Feiffer, Paul Auster and David Sedaris...