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...other hand, there is Frank Lloyd Wright. He was born to be written about, an authentic genius who was both prolific and profoundly influential, his life packed with dramatic incident and grand gesture. Yet while there have been Wright biographies (including his own maundering, portentous, 1932 memoir), his life hasn't had the acute summation and assessment it deserves. While Meryle Secrest's Frank Lloyd Wright is highly imperfect -- her chats about his personality and architecture are trite almost without exception -- it is still the best so far, a huge and definitive accumulation of fact...
...burned-out case, and moved on to cover health and urban affairs for the same paper. New York City has yet to find a happy ending; the same cannot be said for Gelman. Sensibilities and prose style sharpened by his mean-street smarts, as evidenced by this evocative memoir, he went on to win a Pulitzer Prize for journalism...
...literary front, Random House is publishing LIVE from Golgotha, an outrageous recasting of the Jesus story ("All these excuses and all this fund raising, and still he hasn't come back"). Harvard University Press has just brought out Screening History, a gentle, charming memoir of the movies Vidal saw as a child and how they influenced him. Two books and a movie in two weeks...
Making Love is best read after Rhodes' A Hole in the World, a memoir of his mother's suicide, his stepmother's abuse and his father's weakness. The boy's loveless childhood now becomes the man's sexual void, an emptiness that can never be filled...
...single impression of the city dominates for too long; Lynell George's "City of Specters," a stark essay on death in Black Los Angeles, serves as a sobering and understated counterpoint to Babitz' exuberant piece. "In junior high school we went to more funerals than weddings," George writes. Her memoir is filled with children for whom the "concept of life has never been more ephemeral...there is not the need nor time to pace and fret over a future that may never...