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...Ride Together: A Brother and Sister's Memoir of Autism in the Family (Washington Square Press; 200 pp.; $20) by Judy and Paul Karasik alternates prose chapters written by Judy with comix by Paul. The resulting tag-team style provides two sides of a family's story of growing up with an autistic older brother. David Karasik, born in the 1940s, was first diagnosed as having "aphasia," or being "brain damaged," long before autism became a concept that TIME magazine would put on its cover. As the Karasiks describe him, David struggles to put order to a world that arrives...
...lauded women’s studies visiting lecturer was awarded $250,000 from the American Academy of Arts and Letters earlier this month in honor of her outstanding prose writing...
...Trevor Nunn. With top tickets selling at a third of the normal Covent Garden top price of $240, the six performances of Sophie's Choice sold out immediately. Maw's first exposure to Sophie's Choice was the film, but his libretto is almost completely faithful to Styron's prose. So, he says, is his music. "It follows the rhythm and the emotional line of the text very closely. The way I would describe a lot of the music is 'lyric conversation.'" Some critics have faulted Maw for allowing the conversation to drone on too long. But Kirchschlager found...
Courting Ms. Carmon was a nerve-wracking process, since she was essentially pilfered from another department here at The Crimson. Would she like FM? Would she return FM’s calls? As it turned out, Irin was immediately infatuated with the mag. Her refreshing prose and keen nose for moving and hilarious details enliven FM’s takes on everything from dating to finding God at Harvard. FM is very excited to take the relationship to the next level...
DIED. HARRIET DOERR, 92, Lyrical, Award-Winning Author Who downplayed her social status as heiress to a railroad fortune and won a devoted critical and commercial following with three books, all published after she turned 73; in Pasadena, Calif. Known for her sharply beautiful, economical prose--she could labor over a sentence for an hour--Doerr based much of her writing on time spent with her family in Mexico, where her husband ran a mining business. She returned to college at 65 on a dare from her son, studied creative writing and went on to publish the 1984 novel Stones...