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...Violent Pilgrim's Progress...
...thinks the archive will do just fine without him. "Maybe in 50 years no one will be able to read-hen the collection will be more valuable than ever," he suggests. "Human history is like being a pilgrim to Jerusalem-two steps forward, one back. And folks worry about technology. Personally, I like it. When I can't sleep, I listen to Bach on my Sony Walkman. That's progress." And that's the real side view from Bettmann...
FICTION: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera -A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now, edited by Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone -The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Bowen - The Company of Women, Mary Gordon -Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson -The Lone Pilgrim, Laurie Colwin -Other People's Worlds, William Trevor
...LONE PILGRIM...
...fiction brings back news from the front lines of the war between the sexes. In recent years, such bulletins have made for increasingly grim reading: the men are swinish, the women strident, and most of the fun has gone out of the struggle. The 13 stories in The Lone Pilgrim thus offer what amounts to a minority report. Author Laurie Colwin is a remarkably cheerful messenger. She tells of women and men who somehow manage to live vibrantly through the problems they cannot solve and the fights they cannot...