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...Carroll's camera portraits of adults and children at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art that will travel to Houston, New York and Chicago. It appears at the same time as The Lives of the Muses (HarperCollins; 416 pages), a supple work of cultural history by novelist Francine Prose, whose subject is the women who have inspired creative men from Samuel Johnson to John Lennon. She tells us, "The lives of the muses greatly expand our limited notions of Eros," and she includes within those notions Carroll's not quite sexual, not quite chaste infatuations. Prose devotes a chapter...
...Francisco show, organized by Douglas R. Nickel, the museum's photo curator, wants to convince us that Carroll could have had entirely innocent aims in his child photography. Prose takes the wiser course of treating Carroll poignantly and letting the obvious questions go on hanging in the air. Wiser because Carroll's fervent attachment to little girls seems sweaty to us now. He met them on trains, at stores, on beaches. He carried puzzles in his pocket to beguile them and wrote them letters to remind them that "we still remember each other, and feel a sort of shivery affection...
...Autograph Man almost succeeds anyway, through the ecstatic inventiveness of Smith's prose. Her characters don't give thumbs-up; they make the "International Gesture for well-being." Like Martin Amis, she has sympathy for her comically debauched characters and mints turns of phrase the way the government mints pennies, as when Alex wanders into a bar "to have a drink, maybe drinks, maybe drinkseses." And she has a feel for the peculiarly male, geeky world of collectordom. But while she finds myriad arresting ways to say celebrity is a modern religion--"All fandom is a form of tunnel vision...
...merry Christmas is impossible, however, without highly experimental theater. This is where Austin Guest ’05 comes in, to direct beckettproseplay, an abstracted and emotive original, partially cast-generated piece that evokes the difficult and beautiful final prose pieces of celebrated playwright Samuel Beckett. Set to perform Dec. 4-14 in the Lowell House Bell Tower Room, beckettproseplay promises a wholly unique experience for Harvard theater. Not to be missed...
...college, I used to convince professors to let me write out all of my papers by hand, because I couldn’t type. I would tell them it would allow them to see the material in a new way, to expand their connection to the prose. When I had professors who wouldn’t go for it, I would get my girlfriends to do it for free, or I’d pay non-girlfriends to do it at whatever the going rate was. I was even accused once by one girl of extending our relationship...