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...York and Washington with the Lebanese pianist Diana Takieddine. For some years he wrote music criticism for The Nation, and in 1991 he published a collection of his essays, Musical Elaborations. Today, afflicted by leukemia and acutely aware of the shortness of life, he is thinking of writing "a memoir of my pre-political life, which ended in 1967. What a strange world I grew up in! -- a vanished world now. It's very hard even to find traces of it. I can let memory play all the tricks it wants. I want that, actually. Then maybe I'll write...
TITLE: DAYS OF GRACE: A MEMOIR...
...BOTTOM LINE: The late tennis star is unnecessarily defensive in this posthumously published memoir about court manners, reputation and facing overwhelming odds...
Touted as "part biography, part memoir, part critical study, and part exploration of sexual politics in our time," Erica Jong on Henry Miller is indeed a jumble of attitudes and voices--some sentimental, some pedantic. Jong's original intention in writing the book was to chronicle her friendship with Henry Miller. After the publication of her first novel, Fear of Flying, in 1974, Jong received "an enthusiastic fan letter" from a then 83-year-old Miller; the two began a correspondence that lasted until Miller's death in 1980. Jong sees Miller as "a kindred spirit," and she spends...
...profile, that was finally brought before a jury last week. Masson, a scholar of Sanskrit who holds a Ph.D. from Harvard, contends that since the article was published he has been all but unemployable. No longer a therapist, he has written books including the critically acclaimed memoir My Father's Guru and recently taught media ethics at the University of Michigan, where he has been living in the home of his fiance, controversial feminist law professor Catharine MacKinnon. Malcolm continues under contract to the New Yorker, where her editor was her husband Gardner Botsford. She conceded on the witness stand...