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...came back home with his head shaved. "He was already in warrior mode," says his friend J.R. McKechnie. He applied to rejoin the Marines. He was 30, married, a child on the way. "It was really hard on the family," McKechnie says. "Look at Jill. She's a New Yorker, a former model. She had married a hunky media executive, and all of a sudden she ends up with a jarhead on her hands. This is not what she signed...
...place. Soon after, he realizes she is a former Batman fan and inferiority replaces sexuality. The tale of extraordinary-looking beings acting ordinarily grabs its power from its illustrated form creating as legitimate an examination of characters’ inner lives as could be found in many a New Yorker short story...
...manages to cope as best as he can is the principal charm of his memoirs. In All for Love, about his love affairs, women walk into his life, announce that they love him; then they announce that they don't anymore and leave. In Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker: The Invisible Art of Editing, he is a young man with no job and on the verge of leaving New York when a friend suggests that he call the New Yorker on the off-chance it might be interested in publishing one of his stories. Mehta calls...
...Exile, Mehta's prose is so polished that readers skate smoothly upon it?without ever breaking the surface, falling in, and getting lost in his life. What's missing from these memoirs, oddly enough, is evidence of the traits that define him. As a journalist for the New Yorker, Mehta refused to be limited by his blindness; he traveled on assignments with guides who described how things and people looked, and he insisted on going everywhere and "seeing" everything. He wrote essays and books on Oxford philosophy, German theology, Gandhi's fight with his sexuality, the life of the writer...
...Talking Street (talkingstreet.com), which focuses on the country's major East Coast cities, you download a map of a tour online then dial in at indicated locations to hear historical stories and the scoop on local haunts from celebs with a connection to the place. Native New Yorker Sigourney Weaver escorts you through Lower Manhattan, for example, while rocker Steven Tyler takes you around Boston. Each tour costs $5.95. Other notable offerings: the National Park Service's Revolutionary War tour at Minute Man National Historic Park in Concord, Massachusetts, for $5.99, tel: (1-978) 369 6993; and the Cell Phone...