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...Swimming Pool Library” (1988) from libraries, its sales only grew. Similar counterattacks followed a review by John Updike ‘54 of Hollinghurst’s “The Spell” (1999), in which (according to Hollinghurst) Updike implied “some nonsense?? linking the book’s creative failure to gay men’s procreative failure.Hollinghurst, however, seems refreshingly unconcerned about success or failure. “People attach far too much importance to prizes,” he shrugged when asked about winning the Booker...
...rationale, and extending the earlier analogy, one might contend that Goering’s benefaction to young painters is a more important part of his legacy than his establishment of the Gestapo, operation of death camps and complicity in the slaughter of millions of Jews. This would be absolute nonsense??just as it is nonsense to argue that Dzerzhinsky’s supposed role in combating homelessness and destitution, however substantial that may or may not have been, is more historically relevant than his creation of a secret police force that tortured, maimed and killed on a genocidal...
...hiding out in the big city blinking/ What was I thinking when I let go of you.” Tweedy’s gift is finding precisely the right moment to let that naked emotion drop within a verse. Until that last line, it could all be nonsense??but when he allows his heart to show, it all somehow makes sense...