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Mary Cantwell's second book, Manhattan, When I Was Young, invites readers into Cantwell's Manhattan life not as visitors, but to experience its fullness with all their senses. With intricate details this memoir recreates a vivid picture of New York that will draw poignant memories from any New Yorker and leave others hungering for its vitality...
...wrote short stories for the New York Daily News and twice, as the Depression deepened, founded black literary journals. But the Harlem Renaissance had lost its early brilliance, and at heart, West was less a New Yorker than a black version of a proper Bostonian. Her father, who was born a slave, had built a thriving produce business in Boston and was prosperous enough to buy a summer home in Oak Bluffs. By 1943 West had moved there to live. Five years later, her first novel, The Living Is Easy, was set in the affluent world of proud black achievers...
Whenever possible I hung out with Robert Levy,who lived downstairs from me, a sure bet forcigarettes and good company. Robert was a transferfrom Oberlin and a die-hard New Yorker, whosestriking looks and blase attitude suggested bothintense individuality and worldliness. He appearedoddly out of step in the tepid drama of NorthHouse, as if he was there only because he'dauditioned for the wrong play. He was also asmiserable as I back then. With Robert, there wasno need for bravado. Eventually, though, Robertmoved off-campus, and I managed to transfer toLeverett House...
Professor of English Marjorie Garber, a Shakespeare expert and cultural critic, is a frequent contributor to The New York Times op-ed page. A. Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen H. Vendler, an unparalleled expert on poetry, writes for the New Yorker and other publications. The author of the recent book "Soul Says," Vendler is also a contributor to the New York Times Sunday Book Review section. (In June, Vendler reviewed Bill Moyer's new book, "A Festival of Poets...
...will be a challenge. Absolutely Fabulous is so appealing because it is as trenchantly sophisticated as it is hilariously base; American sitcoms are rarely allowed to be either. Edina and her pal Patsy, played by former James Bond vixen Joanna Lumley, make endless media references to people like New Yorker editor Tina Brown, legendary Vogue fashion director Grace Coddington and satirist Will Self, whom Edina hires in one of the final shows to write an acceptance speech for a public-relations award she has little chance of receiving...