Word: opus
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Only the work would tell, and that was invisible. Until this month. At the age of 61, Brodkey has at last released his magnum opus, The Runaway Soul. Physically, it is the long-awaited Big Book. Whether The Runaway Soul deserves 835 pages and a price tag of $30 is another matter. For if this is not the Emperor's New Novel, neither is it Remembrance of Things Past...
Reducing North's opus took work, but Barry has practice. In 1988 he whittled down For the Record, the memoir of former White House chief of staff Donald Regan; last year he excerpted Reagan's autobiography. "Barry did such a masterly job on those that there was no question who should handle North's book," says executive editor Ronald Kriss, who oversaw this project, having cut down a number of works himself. Indeed, so apparent is Seaman's editing talent that in June he was made a senior editor, a much more logical event to have put on his agenda...
GREAT AMERICAN COMICS: 100 YEARS OF CARTOON ART, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Nearly 100 original cartoon panels documenting this whimsical and sometimes serious art form, from the turn-of-the-century adventures of Little Nemo through the goings on of Opus the penguin. Through...
...Rosovsky, despite his impatience, must have learned something from his second tenure as dean. Less than two years after releasing his magnum opus, word has it "the owner" is planning a sequel...
Veteran political reporter Lou Cannon has earned glowing reviews for President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime, a 948-page opus that charts its subject's ! political journey from Sacramento to Washington. So why haven't you heard more about it? That's simple: the book was released barely a week before Kitty Kelley's hit-and-run job on Nancy Reagan. Cannon is upset that Simon & Schuster, publisher of both biographies, didn't live up to a verbal agreement to keep the release of the Kelley book separate from his own tome. After numerous leaks about the Kelley book...