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Louis Begley ’54 says he used the first day of his leave to start his first full-length novel. Three months later—the firm offered him the choice of a three- or six-month sabbatical, but Begley preferred the shorter—he had finished a draft...
Last year he retired from Debevoise and Plimpton, and published his seventh novel, Shipwrecked—about the life of a writer who comes to find his art unsatisfactory...
...novel Couples, based on the social milieu he had encountered in Ipswich, won Updike a spot on the cover of Time—the first of two cover features about him that the magazine ran in fewer than 15 years...
Perhaps the best example of the tension between commerce and decency was a new ABC drama titled Doing It. Based on a British novel, it aims to be My So-Called Life for teenage guys, who, of course, think about sex roughly once a breath. Executive producer Stu Bloomberg describes the show as "life through the prism of hormones." ABC bought the series but out of post-Janet anxiousness changed the title to Life As We Know It--which may deter the decency cops but also sounds like something that would run on Lifetime...
...novelist, and a very fine one, Patrick McGrath has specialized in the modern Gothic, books in which madmen of one kind or another work their wiles. But his superb and unwholesome new novel, Port Mungo (Knopf; 242 pages), is not about anything so simple as abnormal psychology. It's about the brutal impulses available to anyone, especially artists, who would let slip the loose restraints of civilization...