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...themes stand out in this lumpy but fast-reading unauthorized biography, which gets the record straight yet seems to miss the inner man. (Shawcross, a British writer perhaps best known for his savaging of Henry Kissinger's Cambodia policy in Sideshow, managed to interview his subject. Murdoch read the manuscript but refused to comment on it.) One is that Murdoch is a daring but occasionally imprudent gambler, usually with other people's money. In 1990 News faced a liquidity crisis caused by the recession, a huge drop in advertising revenues, and Murdoch's reliance on short-term loans...
...then turning off the tape recorder with a desultory toe. Already this week he's been to Idaho and Colorado to attend a conference on freedom of speech and the American novel. He's enjoyed a "very nice evening" with Salman Rushdie and turned in a 132-page manuscript to Conde Nast Traveler on his recent trip to eastern Nepal, from which he brought back photographs of prints that may support the existence of the yeti, or Abominable Snowman. He has two books just off the presses -- on Siberia and Africa. In between all these activities, he is working...
...Gate, Dove has no intention of giving up poetry. She is currently a professor of creative writing at University of Virginia, and recently completed a historical drama in verse called The Darker Face of the Earth, due out in the fall of 1993. Dove is also halfway through a manuscript of poems...
...Association of American Historians. Would he jot down his "memories and impressions" of the Gerald R. Ford Administration (1974-77) for possible inclusion in the association's triquarterly journal, Retrospect? Well, would he ever. In fact, Clayton is prodded into such an orgy of reminiscence that he produces a manuscript almost diabolically unsuited to academic publication. That, according to the clever premise of John Updike's 15th novel, is why Clayton's ramblings must occupy a book of their...
Besides regularly contributing to philosophical and cultural publications, he coedits, with Gates, Transition, a journal "which looks at the world from within the African diaspora." This summer, he completed a manuscript of a book of proverbs from Asanti, the kingdom in which he grew up. And he is currently editing The Oxford Book of African Literature...