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...narrator, blandly written and just as blandly played by Stephen Mailer, is a stand-in for Simon. Unlike the autobiographical trilogy of Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound, this play does not give the narrator a penchant for candor. We hear little about how this way of working helped or hurt his craft, satisfied or thwarted his soul. Structurally, the piece owes much to Biloxi: a group in thrall to a dangerous leader, a boot camp that hardens the head more than the heart, a tense scene where some teammate is to be unjustly cast out, a summing...
...Lurk beside an occupied computer, sticking their faces intrusively into the e-mailer's personal space in hopes of scaring him or her into a hastier logout. This is the most popular tactic, especially during peak hours...
Three years ago, telling your friends you were an "e-mailer" would do as much good to your reputation as belonging to the Society of Nerds and Geeks. Two years ago, email was no longer considered something obscure, but anyone who talked about it was sure to draw some blank if not disdainful looks...
Still dewy of eye, Morris looks back on "his" Harper's as a vanguard "in mirroring and interpreting and shaping the configurations of the nation." A calmer view is that the magazine scored some exceptional coups, like Seymour Hersh's expose of My Lai and Norman Mailer's "The Prisoner of Sex." But it also ran too many indulgently edited articles that dribbled on until reeled the mind. The author has chosen to look back on the '60s with a naif's sense of primitive awe, with the result that those laundry lists of the Big Feet he chatted...
...Norman Mailer's latest work in progress, a biography of Pablo Picasso, has become embarrassing for his publisher, Random House, and his prominent editor, Jason Epstein. Picasso biographer John Richardson, who is also edited by Epstein, refused to allow excerpts from his 1991 book, A Life of Picasso: Volume I, 1881-1906, to be used in Mailer's book, which he denounced as a "scissors-and-paste job." Mailer now expects to sell his project -- sans the Richardson passages -- to another publisher. Richardson is staying at Random House but has switched editors...