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Mark O'Donnell's new novel, Let Nothing You Dismay, recounts a day in the life of Tad Leary, a 34-year-old New Yorker poised to do battle with a day of Christmas parties that force him to con-front every group of significant people in his life. On Christmas Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve (Tad and his brother's childhood way of marking the days till Christmas), Tad has just been fired from his job at an elementary school and is about to be booted out of his apartment. He navigates his way through family, a friend...
Lydon said that Toni Morrison, the Nobel Laureate and African-American writer, had recently stated in The New Yorker that President Clinton had become a black man due to humiliating attacks on his character. Garcia's reporting, which omitted any mention of Toni Morrison, gave the impression that Lydon himself had come up with the idea and that Clinton blackness's had only to do with the stereotype of promiscuous black men. All of this is incorrect...
Gasps went up when Updike, receiving a lifetime-achievement medal, said the word Wolfe. He had just pricked A Man in Full in the New Yorker, calling its author "a talented, inventive, philosophical-minded journalist, coming into old age," who goes for broke on a novel that is just "entertainment, not literature, even literature in a modest aspirant form." At the podium, a smiling Updike read Wolfe's vivid if catty 1964 account of Updike receiving his first National Book Award: "He squinted at the light through his owl-eyed eyeglasses, then he ducked his head and his great thatchy...
...introverted and literary, painted in subtle pastels. Wolfe, who once wrote a manifesto urging writers to rediscover the Thackeray tradition of sweeping social tomes, prefers raucous and sprawling journalistic narratives that spray-paint the world in bold colors. In 1965 Wolfe wrote a bratty piece calling the New Yorker "the most successful suburban women's magazine in the country." Updike, a fixture there since the '50s, has jousted at the man he calls "Tom, as distinguished from Thomas, Wolfe" and "Tom Wolfe (the younger...
...combat reporting--including that of Peter Arnett of the Associated Press, John Saar and Don Moser of LIFE magazine, Jonathan Schell of the New Yorker, Ward Just of the Washington Post, Sydney Schanberg of the New York Times and scores of others--that is most moving, both for the horror seen and the risks taken. Tom Wolfe's reconstruction of a carrier-based bombing run over North Vietnam still makes one's palms sweat...