Word: talese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although M.F.K. Fisher continued to write books on food in the ensuing decades, she made the passage from haute cuisine to the high art of fiction. Sister Age is Fisher's 17th book and her first full-scale collection of stories. The tales are loosely connected by a single...
FOR SOME SPINNERS of Harvard tales, sex is so cerebral that the act becomes almost unrecognized, submerged in a sea of ponderous figurative philosophizing. Pays Levine, the volcano queen, is one such scribe; another is George Anthony Weller '29, whose long novel Not to Eat, Not for Love appeared in...
Elizabeth James '83 is writing a "distorted dream-like novel explaining the universe in terms of physics for the layman." If it is good enough, she says that she hopes to get it published. While James is composing fantastic tales, Craig Hurty '83 is reading all about such literary works...
Sendak tries by postulating a group of nasty little kids--the kind who populate his books--who play at making a movie, and, in the process, take turns presenting "screen test" sequences which digress into the characters' original tales. Not that much in the way of either tales or transitions...
There is scarcely a discernible connection between the improvisers' tales. Usually after a bout of vicious lovemaking, each bard tells a snippet of a story. A Russian seduces a teen-age Polish gymnast on an ocean liner; an Armenian American on a pilgrimage to Soviet Armenia makes furious love...