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Lessing is a genuinely sui generis literary phenomenon, inexhaustible and defiantly unique - her oeuvre runs to over 40 books. Her principal theme is the experience of women in contemporary society, which she addressed most ambitiously, and successfully, in The Golden Notebook, her 12th novel, published in 1962. A formal tour de force, The Golden Notebook is the story of a divorced writer named Anna Wulf told through her four notebooks, each of which is concerned with recording a different aspect of herself. Brilliant, autobiographical and feverishly experimental, it's a bravura portrait of a shattered self, richly adorned with ruthless...
...Although returning World Champions are allowed to bypass the preliminary rounds of the DMC’s international battle, Zornow, who hopes to make a worldwide tour, said that he would need entirely new material if he were to enter the 2008 competition...
...mother of a 19-year-old daughter, reveals in her frank new book, A Skating Life: My Story, that behind the scenes, she was in the grip of serious depression, which ran through her family. TIME's Andrea Sachs spoke with Hamill, who was in Minneapolis for her book tour...
...pace of the evening was noticeably swift, making the show feel like a tour of Ravel’s work. Levine, the competent guide, was in his element as he drew from the composer’s varied repertory and led the orchestra in a crisp performance. Neat and unwaveringly professional, the program was deliberate and impressive. Sometimes raw exuberance would break through, and it was these moments that revealed that the Boston Symphony Orchestra is only improving with...
...some cases the crowds and revenues have rivaled those of the 1980s. Ratt and Poison just wrapped up a long, large-venue summer tour where they played regularly before 8,000 to 10,000 fans. Ratt lead singer Pearcy says he noticed an emerging younger fan base of teenagers and twenty-somethings who were born years after Ratt multi-platinum Out of the Cellar album released in 1984. "It has been a gradual buildup again. It's rock and roll - colorful, dangerous, exciting," Pearcy said...