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...great genius for sound and the ways that sound and pause create meaning. Because of this, he was the best reader of his own work, she said...
WIFE Lynne Cheney, 63, is senior fellow in education and culture at the American Enterprise Institute and on the board of the Reader's Digest Association...
About a quarter of the way through the novel the reader learns, with a queasy, freezing, absolutely genuine shock, that Never Let Me Go is set in an alternate version of England where the government raises cloned human beings in order to harvest their vital organs for transplant. Although they don't know this when we first meet them, Kathy, Tommy and Ruth are clones, born only to grow up and be taken apart piecemeal...
...Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry, by Legs McNeil, Jennifer Osborne and Peter Pavia. Diving into the nearly 600 pages of unmediated testimony from the actors, directors and producers, and the cops who kept track of them and tried to bring them down, a reader gets an inside look at a time when porn -the entire cultural life -was different, bolder, weirder, better...
...Recently, simply for you, dear reader, I saw some of them again. Here are thumbnail reviews of five...