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...lonely and exacting business. Paul Theroux (The Mosquito Coast, The Great Railway Bazaar) is succinct: "Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves." Robert Stone (Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise) is windy and funny: "I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner. So, I thought, I'm really feeling crazy today, I think I'll go see a shrink ... He was everything that a psychiatrist should be: ... Jewish ... very together, very humane. I went to him, and I talked to him, and he said, 'What you need is religion...
...response to Reader Louise Skelly, who deplored Author Paul Theroux's gloomy view of Britain [Nov. 21], I have done what Skelly suggested. While living in London, our family did "go down to Kew in lilac time" on a lovely Sunday afternoon. That's when our Kensington flat was broken into for the third time. We still cannot forget that our favorite toys and personal belongings are scattered all over The Kingdom...
...pity that Paul Theroux did not "go down to Kew in lilac time...
Something in Author Paul Theroux must have died if he has tired of London [Oct. 31]. I hope no one is deterred from visiting Great Britain because of the negative feelings Theroux reveals in his new book The Kingdom by the Sea. Tourists would miss the chance to know some of the finest people anywhere...
...Theroux comments that travel is of ten like moving about in time. "Most countries had specific years," he writes...