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What do you think of the tabloids? I talk about Tabloid Hell in the novel ... Basically, I read the New York Times, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker ... One doesn't have an unlimited amount of time for reading everything...
...admission. But the usual suspects—professors, proximity to home, housing policies, advising, student life—were not the source of the few doubts I did harbor about coming to Harvard. It was the Boston Red Sox that were keeping me up at night.Could I, native New Yorker, a lifelong Yankees devotee, and bona fide Jetermaniac stand to reside in the heart of Red Sox Nation for the next four years of my life? Would I ever feel welcome in a place where the interlocking N-Y was off-limits? And what of Jeter? What about Jeter? This...
...April 1964, Sheehan returned to the United States after being hired by The Times. It was at this time that he met his future wife Susan Margulies, a staff writer for The New Yorker who would go on to win a Pulitzer Prize for her book “Is There No Place On Earth...
...Clinton, Redux Though the reason Toni Morrison gives for calling Bill Clinton the "first black President" sounds very nice ("I said he was being treated like a black on the street [during the Monica Lewinsky scandal], already a perp"), Morrison should reread the article she wrote for the New Yorker to see her original reasons [May 19]. They do not in any way resemble what she says now. Clinton, she wrote in October 1998, "displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas." Morrison should...
America's first great piano virtuoso was a darkly handsome, intense young New Yorker named William Kapell. He had it all: a staggering technique, passion and an artistic instinct that pierced to the heart of every piece. In 1953 he died in a plane crash at 31. All that remained were his legend and a handful of recordings. Then in 2004 a trove of new Kapell performances surfaced, recorded at home by Australian department-store salesman Roy Preston from radio broadcasts of Kapell's final tour. A selection of those recordings is now being released in a two-disc...