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...process of dying by auto-dissolution afforded the greatest ecstasy known to man.” It’s not clear how the parts were meant to be linked, though early on Flora does refer to the “mad neurologist’s testament?? her husband has been laboring over for years. Nabokov’s writing process as glimpsed here seems to have involved piling together neat phrases (e.g. “pinaforing her stomack with kisses” [sic]) in the hope that there would be time later to arrange them into...
...least there is at hand a testament??this first novel ‘V’—which suggests that no matter what his circumstances, or where he’s doing it, there is at work a young writer of staggering promise.”So began the literary career of Thomas Pynchon, whose latest novel, “Inherent Vice,” we gather here today to celebrate. Since George A. Plimpton ’50 wrote the above praise some 46 years ago, Pynchon has indeed succeeded in turning staggering promise into...
...Southern Baptist Convention. In college, he discovered that he was gay, and he kept it a secret for fear of expulsion or ex-gay therapy. But at the end of his sophomore year, he read Richard B. Hays’ “The Moral Vision of the New Testament??—a text on ethics in the Bible—and began to rethink his life and his faith.“God exists and I exist, and I started from there,” he says. Despite the messages he received from more extreme factions...
With his latest work, “The Life of David,” Pinsky chronicles the entire life of the Old Testament??s David—the “Light of Israel” who bested Goliath, conquered his mentor Saul to become king, battled his son Absalom for power, and envisioned the city of Jerusalem. The author’s carefully-constructed prose takes the remoteness of the biblical tale and turns it into accessible drama; even when using prose, Pinsky operates with the grace of a poet...
...Auslander’s freshest vignettes is his “Startling Revelations from the Lost Book of Stan,” the saga of an American Jewish traveler who discovers the “Extremely Old Testament?? in a dark cave in the Negev Desert...