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...already been felt. The starched tablecloths and silver on the Canadian have long since disappeared from the dining car, and the salmon dinner has lately been spawned in a microwave. And yet the romance lingers. "The train is what welded a widespread and thinly populated nation together," says Canadian novelist W.O. Mitchell, who rode the freights across his native prairies during the Great Depression. "I don't guess that's too relevant now with air travel and cars and television, but it doesn't change my sadness at seeing what's happening...
LATER, during the rabbi's sermon, he read a story written by the Jewish novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer about a man and his ill-tempered father-in-law. As I listened to the tale woven by Singer, I looked around at the assembled crowd. Everywhere in the world, I thought, Jews are listening to their rabbis. They will pray some more; they will go home and return the next morning to pray; they will fast for a full day; they will break the fast with relatives and friends...
...South who struggles to save the family estate and falls for a dashing stranger . . . A Cliff's Notes summary of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind? Not quite. It is the plot of La Bicyclette Bleue (The Blue Bicycle), a 400-page 1981 best seller by French novelist Regine Deforges. This week Deforges and her publishing company, which she now owns, are fighting to save their own fortunes in Paris, where they are defendants in a plagiarism suit brought by Mitchell's heirs...
Cornwell is the half-brother of spy novelist John Le Carre (real name: David Cornwell), and perhaps has a special interest in the genre. Though Cornwell's story was front-paged in his London paper, the Independent, British intelligence experts feigned boredom and suggested that Soviet spooks were simply trying to stir up a bit of mischief...
Perhaps this was the case for the select group Leibowitz has chosen to study. It includes such quintessential Americans as noted socialist-anarchist Emma Goldman, novelist Richard Wright and architect Louis Sullivan...