Word: readerly
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...CORRECTIONS It's a pity that Jonathan Franzen's dustup with Oprah--she chose his novel for her book club; he expressed some ill-advised reservations--has overshadowed what he wrote, for his saga about a dysfunctional family has accomplished something rare: a mix of high literary ambitions with reader friendliness...
...Corrections It's a pity that Jonathan Franzen's dustup with Oprah - she chose his novel for her book club; he expressed some ill-advised reservations - has overshadowed what he wrote, for his saga about a dysfunctional family has accomplished something rare: a mix of high literary ambitions with reader friendliness...
...folks are frittering away their lives by failing to define their goals with surgical precision. "The Focal Point Process," he writes, "requires that you continually put an 'X' on the thought or activity that can be the most helpful to you at any given moment." And Tracy teaches the reader...
Signac was also an energetic and talented writer, an avid reader and bibliophile, and an ardent backer of the avant-garde in the days when that word actually meant something. "The golden age has not passed," ran the subtitle he appended to an enormous didactic canvas, In the Time of Harmony, 1893-95. "It lies in the future." The picture set out to depict the joys of anarchist cooperation: free love, picnics, games of boule on the beach, farm labor made easy by a steam-powered reaper in the distance. What in fact lay in the future was the trenches...
...even for the latter, this is poetry at its most painless. Each of the nine themed chapters is illustrated by a different artist, and the poetry ranges from comic to sad, from two lines to three pages and from Shakespeare to Edward Lear. This would be the picky reader's pick read. And before long, the lyrical language will have become infectious...