Tag: books
member name: Stephen Murray
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February 20, 2007 03:38 PM EST --
I had hoped to arrive at City Lights an hour early to get a seat and read from Tales of the Out & the Gone before Amiri Baraka's reading. With a holiday bus schedule (and at least one missed route), . . . more
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October 26, 2006 04:44 PM EDT --
"Not Quite a Memoir" is a peculiar title, though it succeeds in raising curiosity about what the book is. The subtitle starts to narrow the focus with of films, book," but then opens up . . . more
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November 15, 2006 12:37 AM EST --
Between the death of Penelope Fitzgerland a few years ago and her own death a few months ago, Muriel Spark was my favorite living writer in English (she was born in Scotland and lived for decades in Tuscany). . . . more
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November 17, 2006 01:15 PM EST --
Although it sometimes seemed a bit padded, I enjoyed Mary Taylor Simeti's journal of the changing seasons and their festivals in northwestern Sicily (Palermo and her husband's ancestral estate . . . more
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November 28, 2006 05:35 PM EST --
"What sad days those were: the happiest of my life."
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The Sicilian novelist Gesualdo Bufalino (1920-1996) is one of those writers (like Norman MacLean or Harriet . . . more
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February 08, 2007 02:24 AM EST --
"Philosophy and theology have no effect on [Pastor Primus], much less plain common sense. Impossible to convince this man by argument. But humor he always listens to, even though it be ill humor. . . . more
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October 25, 2006 03:38 PM EDT --
It's hard to contemplate anything having to do with the fate of empires without imaging reflections from the chas of Iraq, though even George W. Bush's harshest critics imagine that his military . . . more
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November 18, 2006 09:38 PM EST --
This is the third of (so-far) sixmystery novels in which murders occur around Nick Hoffman, an Edith Wharton scholar soon to come up for tenure in a rancorous department at the State University of Michigan . . . more
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September 22, 2006 07:12 PM EDT --
If I waited a long time to get around to reading A Purity of Arms, I waited much longer to get around to reading Sherri Cavan's Hippies of the Haight. which was published in 1972, eight years before . . . more
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September 25, 2006 04:14 PM EDT --
I'm not sure why "Flight" is the title story of José Skinner's splendid (2002) collection of short stories. It is one of the wry New Yorker-style stories that deftly sketches a situation . . . more
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September 25, 2006 05:56 PM EDT --
Having reread The Stranger (first published in 1942 as L'étranger after W's publicized reading of it ((it and a biography of Roberto Clemente were the two books he is supposed to have read . . . more
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October 24, 2006 12:42 PM EDT --
I was somewhat disappointed in the 1988 winner of the Strega Prize (Italy's most prestigious literary award), although like the much-heralded fiction of by Allesandro Barrico that I also find disappointing, . . . more
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November 13, 2006 08:18 PM EST --
The late Muriel Spark's 20th novel, Aiding and Abetting, is a skillful and entertaining but not especially profound black comedy. The octogenarian Dame Muriel's penultimate novel provides little . . . more
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December 02, 2006 01:19 AM EST --
Aaron Wolf's memoir, A Purity of Arms: An American in the Israeli Army, published in 1989, makes the reader feel the sweat and chill and exhaustion of training in the Israel Defense Force. The author, . . . more
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April 27, 2007 01:12 PM EDT --
Oakley Hall was back in town (from Virginia City, where he now lives) promoting his 26th book, Love and War in California. The war is his own one, Word War II. Born in 1920, he was a Berkeley senior when . . . more
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May 07, 2007 04:51 PM EDT --
It’s not at all a surprise that Jean Rhys’s novels,—all of which are written from the perspective of a woman disappointed in a man whom she thought would take care of her—are autobiographical. . . . more
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September 04, 2006 03:35 PM EDT --
Reading Richard Ford's "How was it to be dead?" in the 8/28 New Yorker, I realized that one reason so many "stories" in the New Yorker seem to stop rather than have endings is that . . . more
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