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WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR NEWS FROM? I am a big newspaper reader. On TV I watch the evening news. I bounce around. One of my favorite programs is the Jim Lehrer report...
...True History of the Kelly Gang with its deliberate misspellings and solecisms, Carey sets stylistic obstacles in the reader's way in his new novel. He abjures the use of quotation marks for dialogue, which gives his pages a stylish, neomodernist look, but as the narrative structure grows more convoluted, the reader is often left wondering whether a line is dialogue or the narrator's commentary. Given Carey's many allusions to T.S. Eliot, this complexity might be intended to suggest the elusiveness of certain knowledge about human identity?or it might be merely pretentious. And his attempts to give...
...Muslim fasting month with the Balinese Hindu feast of Nyepi, a single day of sequestration and introspection. Although observance of Nyepi is enforced by temple authorities, Indonesia, unlike Malaysia, does not have religious police. Yet none of these peccadilloes detracts from the novel's momentum, which continuously hurtles the reader forward. Eliot himself, in an essay defending Wilkie Collins, the Victorian master of melodrama (and author of a great thriller with an Asian setting, The Moonstone), laid down the dictum that the first requirement of any literature is that it be interesting. In this regard, Carey succeeds decisively...
...fiction that endures for me is written at the same high level as fiction,” he explains. “I always ask, ‘Can the reader see what’s happening...
...Michelle Leder in Financial Fine Print: Uncovering a Company's True Value. She doesn't expect you to read all 300 pages of a company's financial statement or try to comprehend complex derivatives. The most crucial section is the footnotes, where many companies bury bad news. An attentive reader can spot the red flags: inflated growth assumptions for pension assets, a subsidiary controlled by a son-in-law, lots of synthetic leases. Then get your money out. Compare the most recent reports to those of past years, and skim for the new material--if more investors had noticed Enron...