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DIED. RUMER GODDEN, 90, exquisitely lyrical British novelist, playwright and poet; in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Godden set much of her work in India, where she grew up. Although she wrote a total of 70 books and collections, she was best known for the 1939 novel Black Narcissus, in which nuns fight to establish a school and hospital on a Himalayan mountain. Of the 1946 film version, the prickly Godden observed, "I hate it...Everything about it was phony...
UPDIKE HAS DONE IT AGAIN. THE ABSURDLY PROLIFIC Boston area writer of nearly 50 tomes of poetry, criticism, children's literature and fictive adventures in sensuality-cum-neuroses, John Updike '54 brings us in Bech at Bay a fourth installment of the now aging Manhattan Jewish novelist, Henry Bech. In four short stories, Updike deftly sketches the extremely self-conscious life of a minor writer whose laurels and curls alike are withering on his crown and whose...
...Simon (Kenneth Branagh) is a man in a rumpled corduroy jacket with his nose pressed eagerly against the double-glazed windows of fame. A failed novelist, he writes celebrity profiles for magazines and subsists emotionally on such crusts--a bit of gossip, a moment of false intimacy--as the famous discard as they pass...
...Mass. Allanbrook wrote the opera in Naples in 1951 on the continuation of a Fulbright scholarship that allowed him to go to the opera at Santo Carlo every weekend. A friend he met at Harvard, John Hart '48 (who would later go on to be a successful biochemist and novelist) collaborated as librettist, sending him batches of lyrics which he put to music in the heady Italian atmosphere...
...forest: monkeys, army ants, poisonous frogs. Below, on a path, a woman and four girls, all in shirtwaist dresses. "Seen from above this way," writes novelist Barbara Kingsolver at the outset of The Poisonwood Bible (HarperCollins; 546 pages; $26), "they are pale, doomed blossoms, bound to appeal to your sympathies. Be careful. Later on you'll have to decide what sympathy they deserve." Fair warning, though what the reader must decide before finishing this turbulent, argumentative narrative goes beyond judging four white American daughters and their mother, set down deep in the Congo in the precarious year...