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...someone who believes that the relationship narrative is central to much of great literature, then you, gentle reader, are suddenly spoiled for choice. In the unhappy-families category, autobiographical division, British novelist and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi bares all about his decision to leave his partner in the fictional Intimacy (Scribner; 118 pages; $16), while New York City journalist John Taylor skips the novelizing but tells a strikingly similar story in Falling: The Story of One Marriage (Random House; 225 pages...
...needs free alarm clocks and umbrellas? To spike moribund magazine sales, it seems, nothing works better than hiring a new reporter--particularly one with an international following and a Nobel Prize. That at least has been the experience of Cambio, a Colombian newsweekly whose newsstand sales have doubled since novelist GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ bought the flagging magazine and joined its reporting staff. Undercover assignments are out of the question, but the author, who worked at a newspaper before becoming a novelist, insists on doing his own legwork and recently covered peace talks between the government and rebels. "Journalism...
...located on the Upper East Side, where it housed Margaret Wise Brown, author of Goodnight Moon. Sophisticated teens will want to stop for a hamburger at the White Horse Tavern on Hudson Street, the onetime haunt of poet Dylan Thomas. And St. Luke's Place is a literary warren: novelist Theodore Dreiser lived at No. 16, poet Marianne Moore at No. 14, playwright Sherwood Anderson...
Boston Globe columnist Ellen H. Goodman '63 and novelist Pat O'Brien will serve as Radcliffe's first ever writers in-residence this semester, Radcliffe announced yesterday...
...pages of spare description at the outset of the somewhat old-fashioned romantic adventure Charlotte Gray (Random House; 399 pages; $24.95), novelist Sebastian Faulks makes a promise that somewhat old-fashioned readers expect and understand. The brief opening scene takes a Spitfire pilot over Nazi-occupied France on a lone mission and brings him back to his British home field, his fragile plane's tail controls damaged by antiaircraft fire. He makes a ragged landing and climbs out of the cockpit, shaking. A mechanic asks, "How was it, Greg?" He answers, "It was cold...