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...every one. The contents include Faulkner-like tales of a Texan adolescent (later reworked into "Texas Summer") , an inner-city delinquent saga, a blissed-out, Kerouac-like account of a road trip, a journey into the mind of a tormented worker in the Paris metro, and an artfully drawn portrait of a wannabe hipster who hangs around black musicians (titled "You're Too Hip, Baby," its milieu may be dated, but its message is timeless). The most significant entry is his pioneering work of new Journalism, "Twirling at Old Miss," in which ever-libidinous Ter visits a baton-twirling academy...
Ashbery, the author of 20 books, is a Fulbright Scholar, a two-time Guggenheim Fellow and a MacArthur "genius" fellow. In 1975, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. He is also a winner of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In January, he was named the New York state poet...
...hope you decide to read The Crimson in part because you have faith in our ability to present a comprehensive portrait of Harvard life. It is sometimes hard to tell how well we are doing that job. Aside from the occasional snap in the Independent or the Salient, few voices exist to hold The Crimson accountable. The Crimson, as an influential interest at Harvard, deserves scrutiny. Internal criticism must suffice as the first line of defense against sins of omission, commission and malpractice. Happily, the debates inside 14 Plympton Street are usually rich...
...Cleopatra Selene-Cleopatra's daughter by Mark Antony and the twin of her second son, Alexander Helios-is identified as the subject of a rare marble portrait statue found in Cherchel, Algeria. On loan from that city's Archaeological Museum, the statue has never been outside Algeria before. Cherchel was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Mauretania, restored by Augustus to Cleopatra Selene's husband, Juba II. Another marble rendering of Cleopatra Selene, found near Juba's palace at Cherchel, shows her as a more mature woman, with a heavier face and "snail-shell" curls around her forehead...
...American Tabloid--which all of you still reading this know is about three imaginary psychopaths involved in everything from the Bay of Pigs to the assassination of John F. Kennedy--is a hard book to follow. Having gone way over the top in his first portrait of recent U.S. history as gutter journalism and a paranoid drug trip, Ellroy can't replicate the first-time shock effects of Tabloid and must settle instead for offering more of the same. He does so brilliantly, but the thrills seem familiar...