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...pretty sweet,” said Alex Kalamaroff, a Boston public school substitute teacher who sits in on Wood’s lectures at Harvard in his spare time. “My problem with book reviews is that I’d rather read books. [But] Even Philip Roth’s new novel is worse than this,” Kalmaroff said, holding up a copy of “How Fiction Works.” “Vigorous writing. A little fierce but never snarky.” Waiting in line for his book...
...first is Schenectady, the working-class city near Albany where Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a theater director, lives with his artist wife Adele (Catherine Keener) and their young daughter Olive (Amy Goldstein). Caden, who's had a critical success staging Death of a Salesman with young actors in the middle-age roles, is himself a premature old man; he hears mortality gargling at him everywhere. In the first scene, he wakes to a radio talk-show report about how the coming of autumn is a harbinger of death; from then on, Caden's life is one long fall. Reading...
...MOVIE Synecdoche, New York A theater director (Philip Seymour Hoffman) has a Really Big Idea for a play, an obsession that upends his life and leads to madness. Charlie Kaufman's comedy about artistic ambition is challenging, invigorating and, if you go with it, brilliant fun. It's like a suicidal Fellini film--a downer...
They don't have much else in common, but Philip Roth, John Updike and Toni Morrison do resemble one another in at least one respect: their ages. Roth is 75 this year, Updike is 76, and Morrison is 77. (Roth and Updike are separated by exactly a year and a day.) Together these three are the ranking triumvirate of a literary generation that is way too all over the place to have a collective name--they ain't modernists, they ain't postmodernists--but that dominated American fiction for the second half of the 20th century. This year all three...
After the speech, Philip Lee, assistant director of admissions at the Law School, said that O’Connor was a living example of the benefits of diversity...