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Only the first section of introductory poems refers to the death of Carson’s mother directly, and even those are mediated by literary allusion. As tender as it is to remember visiting her mother being “like starting in on a piece by Beckett,” the epigraph she leaves is bare and cold: “There is so much wind here stones go blank.” The book is penned in defiance of this natural erasure, with Carson’s remembrances acting as a moving apotheosis for their subjects...
...less than a month at a time, the truth behind the magical thinking refuses to be ignored.So Didion moves on from denial to distraction, obsessively doing crossword puzzles, and alternately losing herself in strings of related memories or trying to avoid sights that bring about such memories. Many are tender scenes of married life, and quite a few are humorous. For example, while waiting to visit Quintana at a hospital in New York, Didion recounts the day when three-year-old Quintana stuck a seed pod from their garden up her nose and her doctor had to be called away...
...Moon,” in which he plays a traveling salesman having an affair with a lonely housewife. The director feels that “in that [film], he did something that you don’t see in most of his other movies: he was very sweet, gentle, tender, compassionate, and of course, sexy, which I knew I needed Tom Stall to have...
...There's something sad about her trying to prove her softness, in a way that men on the comeback trail don't (and something sadder about a 64-year-old woman using Am I the Same Girl? as her theme song). If even Martha can't escape this tender trap, the need to convince us of her sweetness and girliness, what woman...
...playing on a dozen American movie screens this weekend as Thumbsucker, the independent movie based on my novel. Like most writers, I had always dreamed of having one of my books made into a film, but I had never expected that it would be the one about my most tender adolescent secret: the oral fixation that I tried to hide from others until I was old enough to go to college and that, when I briefly managed to break it, was replaced by a host of more troubling obsessions (some of them involving illegal substances). Writing this often mortifying story...