Word: novelists
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...with Microsoft's $100 e-mail program, Outlook 98. It came out in March, but I resisted, finally installing it a few months ago. I won't be reverting to the $40 Eudora Pro 4.0 (not even if Eudora changes its name to "Fry," after Stephen Fry, my favorite novelist this month...
Anyone with a rooting interest in culture has surely had the experience of having a crush on an artist, of tearing through all of a novelist's books or rapidly buying all of a musician's CDs--the aesthetic equivalent of downing a pint of Haagen-Dazs--only to find oneself still hungry, frustrated with the limits of a canon. In the case of an artist with famously lost, botched or unfinished works, this hunger can be particularly keen. I know, having recently been driven to buy a bootlegged CD of material recorded for Smile, the legendarily unfinished Beach Boys...
Neurologist David Hershleder is a workaholic with a runaway wife and a terrible historical burden. His mother, a Holocaust survivor, is driven mad by the latest big lie of anti-Semitism: that Hitler's genocide factories at Auschwitz and elsewhere are fabrications by Zionist propagandists. Novelist Schulman's accomplishment is to guide Dr. Hershleder to the source of his free-floating anguish and then discreetly join the enormity of his legacy to his domestic woes. The author also leaves the reader in a state of disturbed speculation. If Holocaust revisionism becomes accepted history, how long will it take for Hitler...
...salted with bitterness toward his countrymen and his American mentors, block his ability to envision a future. Katherine too suffers from jolting betrayals that have left her alienated from family and home. But in and through each other, they discover a capacity for solace, forgiveness and renewal. First-time novelist Susan Choi, 29, writes gracefully, insightfully and with striking maturity as she explores the lives of these two outcasts...
Points for that graphic featuring Washington's grandeur, replete with phallic imagery. Misguided post-address panel included Ellen Levine, editor of Good Housekeeping, and novelist Jacquelyn Mitchard...