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Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye introduced “renaissance man” Cohen to the forum as a “great novelist and poet,” urging members of the audience to read Cohen’s three novels and two volumes of poetry...
Clerici was a tennis player of some distinction, good enough to make the main draw at Wimbledon in 1953. "I lost in the first round because I had bad nose cramps," he jokes. He went on to become a highly regarded poet and novelist?his book White Gestures was a top seller in Italy?and he published a well-received biography of the grande tennis dame Suzanne Lenglen. He was also once named Italy's playwright of the year. The son of a Lombard oil magnate, Clerici is a bon vivant of the first order. Surely the most dapper dresser...
DIED. NEAL TRAVIS, 62, gossip columnist for the New York Post, novelist and editor; of cancer; in New York City. The New Zealand native wrote a daily column that often taunted the rich and famous. Once told to go easy on President Bill Clinton, Travis shot back, "He's no better than any other man with his zipper open...
After the immediate shock," says best-selling British novelist Iain Banks, "I thought, 'Thank goodness I'm not writing a book at the moment' because you just think, 'What's the point?'" A year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the arts community - including Banks, whose novel Dead Air comes out Sept. 5 - is among those starting to recover from creative numbness. And European screens, stages and pages are starting to see the result. The responses seem to fall into three main categories. The first is epitaph-like memorials of the day itself, such as Anne Nelson's salute...
...that tourism was making places like Nice increasingly dependent on revenues from visitors. Then it was the influx of "ordinary people" stimulated by the coming of the railroad from Paris through Lyon and Marseilles. About a century later, it was decadence and crime, a subject that sufficiently aroused English novelist and long-time Nice resident Graham Greene to write his famous polemic J'Accuse: The Dark Side of Nice. Kanigel has compiled a hybrid, neither a lightweight beach book nor a dry work of scholarship. Instead, High Season in Nice is a lively contribution to the literature of travel history...