Word: proust
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...read Proust in French and can hold forth knowledgeably on the merits of a bottle of Chateau Latour, Breyer is the son of a San Francisco lawyer. With his mother's encouragement, he attended Stanford University instead of Harvard, where she was afraid he would lose himself in books. Before going on to Harvard Law School, he spent two years at Oxford. His ! enduring affection for things British is evident in everything from his tailoring to the trace of a British accent that sometimes inflects his speech to his wife Joanna, a clinical psychologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute...
...York Times, objected in a memoir to the portrayal of a black man in Mr. Sammler's Planet, and in March, critic Alfred Kazin wrote in the New Yorker that "my heart sank when I heard that Bellow once asked, 'Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans...
Bellow responded that a journalist had misunderstood that particular "piercing question" and noted that neither the Bulgarians nor the Americans have a Proust. Then he made the ornery outburst: "My critics, many of whom could not locate Papua New Guinea on the map, want to convict me of contempt for multiculturalism and defamation of the Third World. I am an elderly white male -- a Jew to boot. Ideal for their purposes...
Good writers are often compared to great ones, and the Irish fiction writer John McGahern surely falls into one of these two categories. He has been compared to Joyce and Proust, to Carver and Faulkner, and he has been called Ireland's finest living fiction writer. It is, perhaps, the human impulse to categorize, to judge, to say that this art is great and that is not. Certainly Mr. McGahern's voice is an extraordinary one, one that immediately announces itself as distinctive and recognizable, and his fiction creates a quietly graceful universe that we can watch and believe...
...hand against Dilbeck: "Davey, I'm trying to cut you a break. Now if you'd prefer Plan B, that's fine. Have you ever been on Hard Copy?" If Hiaasen dialogue like that isn't worth the price of admission, then spend your late nights curled up with Proust...