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Joel took the opportunity to set the record straight on a variety of topics. He denied rumors of having a piano-shaped house in New Jersey and defined the "real estate novelist" in the song "The Piano Man" as a real estate agent who is writing the great American novel...
...leaving The New York Times to pursue a full time career as a novelist. Her institutional affiliation guaranteed her an audience. Stripped of this and with her limitations, it will be interesting to see what becomes...
Buried within Gail Godwin's ninth novel, The Good Husband (Ballantine; 468 pages; $22.95), is a wry and potentially wicked marital and academic farce. Imagine two imperious egotists -- one, Magda Danvers, a scholar of "visionary" literature, and the other, Hugo Henry, a successful novelist -- cooped up together at a small, liberally endowed college in the Catskills. Give them both passive spouses. Magda has Francis, 12 years her junior, whom she calls "dummy" and other affectionate epithets. Hugo has Alice, who was once his editor and is now nurse to his formidable self-regard. Surely these worms will eventually turn...
...dollars to supplement his instructor's pay at Columbia University. He was a godsend. Not just any old Wasp, but the scion of arguably the nation's most distinguished literary family. His father was Mark Van Doren, Pulitzer- prizewinning poet and scholar; his mother was a novelist; his uncle, a famous historian; his aunt, editor of a respected book-review journal...
...Clinton turned his attention to important, ego-satisfying goals in life, like getting his golf score under 80. He got as close as 82, and spent the rest of the week resting with his family and having dinner with superlawyer Vernon Jordan, Katharine Graham of the Washington Post and novelist William Styron...