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...galaxy that surrounded Actress Marion Davies during her 32-year reign as mistress to Newspaper Tycoon William Randolph Hearst. Davies' recollections, which were tape-recorded in 1951 but locked up until her death a decade later at 64, were only recently rediscovered and published as a memoir entitled The Times We Had. Hearst, who was 58 when he discovered Marion as a chorus girl of 16, was "the kindest, most innocent, naive person you'd ever want to meet." Despite the millions he spent on his 300,000-acre estate at San Simeon in California, he provided...
...York Review of Books serializes Edward Gorey's stealthily demented drawings. John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch and Frank O'Hara are lumped into what is termed the New York School of poets, since they stay around there without grudging its riff-raff. And, besides the memoir of Lang, Alison Lurie has written novels about middle America. No one picked up on V.R. Lang's work until her husband and Lurie decided to collect a few poems and plays. Lurie, in particular, seems to feel that death cheated Lang out of a chance that she deserved to assert herself. Lang used...
...feel kind of sorry, because she comes across as a daringly imaginative, unusual and likeable person. Lurie's memoir presents a well-rounded survey of Lang's life that runs through about a third of the book. It's a suspicious way to begin, as though you are more apt to develop an interest in Lang's writing if you've been enticed by her experiences. There is something intriguing about a person whose earliest love affair might have started with seduction by a Red Sox player in the front seat of a red convertible that his fans gave...
...seems to represent a cynical reckoning on the reading public. It suggests that people will shrug off the question of an author's skill if their voyeuristic urges are satisfied. A less frenetic life probably wouldn't have been placed on a par with Lang's writing. Lurie's memoir leads you to Lang's work by way of a detour that impinges on her privacy unnecessarily. It is an approach Lang denounces in one of her verse-plays...