Word: novellas
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Still Price feels compelled to make one last try at the young husband and the suicidal wife in an awkward novella called "Walking Lessons." But by that time the author seems to have been haunted long enough. The stories are ghosts, perhaps personal, certainly professional, and in the end he may have published them merely to get free...
...Hicks, while campaigning for the Boston city council, claimed that the city would have to raise taxes by $22 million to provide its share-too great a burden in an election year. Mrs. Hicks' campaign caused the city council to vote unanimously to withdraw its support. In Philadelphia, Novella Williams, a black militant organizer, complained that the bicentennial had little significance to her people. She explained: "It gives us no political or economic advantages-just taxation without representation." Furthermore, she said, "if you build a house nice enough for tourists, how will blacks be able to afford...
...revenge includes a six-page bibliography of Bech's works as well as criticism of them. Travel Light, Bech's highly praised first novel, seems to carry strains of Kerouac's On the Road and Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March. Brother Pig, a novella, hints ever so slightly of Mailer's stylishly oblique and politically muddled Barbary Shore ("Puzzling Porky" is Updike's title for the TIME review). When the Saints, a collection of essays and sketches of the kind that often get published from the sheer momentum of a downsliding career...
...Bresson. "There is a huge barrier between his greatness, his silence, his commitment and his dreams, and the world in which they are mistaken for stumbling and obsession." Une Femme Douce, Bresson's newest film, may go some small way toward razing the barrier. Adapted from a Dostoevski novella about the suicide of a young bride, Une Femme Douce finds Bresson dealing once again with the corruption of innocence, a theme that has dominated his work from Diary of a Country Priest to last year's Mouchette. For the first time, however, his central character is something more...
CELEBRATE, v.t.: to solemnize; to honor or observe by refraining from business or by exuberant merrymaking; to proclaim, publish abroad; to extol, sound the praises of. Herewith a celebration of Jonathan Strong, a senior who in his long undergraduate nights has made himself a novella called Tike and five stories besides...