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...spite of his doctor’s pleas that he should stay home he made it up here and he looked great,” Brand said. “And his presence really gave us a great boost, and a lot of energy...
...less contract given to a new author. But before we all rush to join BACA, we have to ask ourselves: is the merging of celebrity and literary culture really so bad? Good books have always and will always manage to be published every year, in spite of growing commercialism. As long as readers willingly consume both good literature and its opposite, celebrity literature, both will survive. —Staff writer Madeline K.B. Ross can be reached at mross@fas.harvard.edu...
...Wimmin's Comix" she meets Robert Crumb, marrying him a few years later. Their atypical marriage, with his open philandering and her taking a permanent lover she calls her "second husband," seems par for the course for a woman determined to escape the banality of "ordinary" American life. In spite of its unconventional nature the Crumb's relationship certainly appears to be a model of support and mutual fulfillment. Can it really be true? While Need More Love reveals all the pain of growing up, either Kominsky Crumb has been blessed with a near perfect marriage or something's missing...
...therein lies the greatest problem: “Arlington Park” is too saturated with the miseries of domestic life. It is unrealistic that every mom in a casual group that meets outside the school gates is wildly unhappy with her life as wife and mother. In spite of their (slightly) different situations, the characters are not distinctive; they fade together into a single embodiment of the same frustrations.There are no redeeming qualities to married life, at least as Cusk portrays it in her novel. The children are, if not an additional curse, no compensation. There are no light...
...most immediately noticeable aspect of “Lincoln’s Smile and Other Enigmas” is a giant photograph of Abraham Lincoln’s craggy face staring out from the cover. But in spite of the photograph’s prominence, the key word in the title of Alan Trachtenberg’s new book is not “Lincoln,” but “enigmas.”Honest Abe figures only slightly in one of the book’s essays, and even then it is not so much Abraham Lincoln...