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...their more or less weekly performances have extended to such arenas as the Straus and Wigglesworth common rooms and several area elementary schools. The future may bring the group to the next level of fame, as plans include shows for audiences larger than a freshman entryway, live animals and Cambridge street perfomances (they recently acquired a permit). But perhaps the true sign that the Magic Club has hit it big is their upcoming gig at a Long Island bar mitzvah for the son of two Harvard alumni—their first paid performance...
...this Mr. Potter isn't Harry's dad. Mr. Potter, a native Antiguan of African descent, works on the Caribbean island of Antigua as a chauffeur for a Mideastern immigrant. He is the focus of Jamaica Kincaid's new novel, "Mr. Potter," (Farrar, Straus; May). PW is swept away, giving the book a starred review. "Another unsentimental, unsparing meditation on family and the larger forces that shape an individual's world...As in her previous books, Kincaid has exquisite control over her narrator's deep-seated rage, which drives the story but never overpowers it, and is tempered...
...Trujillo transposed in Mario Vargas Llosa's novel The Feast of the Goat (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 404 pages; $25) is heartless and uncannily shrewd, a man whose political instincts and outsize lust were the twin pillars of his power. But personality goes only so far in maintaining authority. Vargas Llosa's scenes of official murder and sanctioned torture are fulsome enough to have been written by the other Mario, the late best-selling author Mario Puzo. Like the father of The Godfather, the Peru-born Vargas Llosa has a talent for the graphic. There are no horses' heads...
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...David Straus: On the one hand, we can?t tell people not to worry, that there?s absolutely no anthrax out there, because we don?t have that guarantee. On the other hand, the average citizen shouldn?t be overly concerned about opening their mail...