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...very immediate," says Colette spokesman Guillaume Salmon. The book's success lies in its deft melding of high-mindedness and raunch - nothing like knowing that your penchant for outdoor sex is due to your binding zodiacal link to Dionysus, the orgiastic Greek god of wine. As Cox says, "What [readers] didn't expect were the smarty bits; they just expected the unzipped stuff, not the smarty pants themselves. Pop, but also classic, high and low." To achieve this, the book's first two sections examine questions of body, soul and mind, drawing from an array of Greek mythology, psychology...
...life that Erlick documents is indeed a fascinating one, and the author does a good job of showing the reader what kinds of sludge Flaquer had to wade through in her search for truth...
...question, of course, is: Does such a stage exist? And if it doesn’t—and I think it doesn’t—what are the responsibilities of the still-evolving writer? And what is the consequent burden of the reader...
Just as the reader doesn’t know what was driving the writer, the writer doesn’t know what to expect from the reader. The relationship has the setup of a blind date: The reader has a general idea of what the writer might say, but can’t predict much at all. Such uncertainty is characteristic of relationships in general, but what distinguishes the writer/reader interchange from most is that journalism is public, so the stakes are high. And when the subject involves sensitive material about people or communities, they are even higher...
According to Corbett, the book will give its reader a real education about how football began, how it developed and how “it got to be the game it is today.” The need of Harvard and Yale men to rebel against rigid campus life through vigorous physical activity, and to prove their superiority against one another in athletic skills developed into the “Boston game” of football...