Word: yorkerism
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...what Bennett calls a "conspiracy of silence." By last week not a word had appeared in the book-review sections of the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today or even the Chicago Tribune, Bennett's hometown newspaper. Or the New York Review of Books. Or the New Yorker. What's going on here...
...child can't go to the dentist without permission, can't have any kind of emergency surgery, can't choose school, religion, clothing, housing. If you took this ruling to its logical extension, a child would have the right to go to court and say, 'I'm a New Yorker, but I want to move to California...
...unexpected distractions--including a romance with a glamorous Manhattan designer and the appearance of a previously unknown (surprise, Charlie!) illegitimate son. The most unexpected distraction of all: a tough re-election opponent named Lee Butler. Butler is the book's weakest link--the right-wing nightmare of a New Yorker political correspondent (Klein's day job). Butler launches his campaign with a series of Bible-study meetings, and he gets more Ralph Reedy from there. And you'll never guess: it turns out he's a hypocrite! In some literary precincts, apparently, this will be thought a clever twist...
...Joseph Mitchell (Tucci), a revered New Yorker writer, published an article about Joe Gould (Ian Holm), a Greenwich Village Bohemian who claimed to be writing a history of the world millions of words long. Twenty-two years later, Mitchell admitted that Gould's manuscript, except for a few fragments, didn't exist. Thereafter Mitchell could be heard typing in his office every day, but he never published another word. There's a great story here, but Tucci's literate, civilized, wistful movie lacks savage impulse and refuses to show how mutual exploitation led to minor tragedy...
...much for the quaint and condescending label Anglo-Indian. Would anyone tag Nigeria's Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka an Anglo-African? Mishra, Jha, Sharma and other promising Indian-rooted writers like Jhumpa Lahiri, whose Interpreter of Maladies recently won the New Yorker Book Award for best debut, work in an age when East and West are cross-pollinating at a dizzying pace...