Books

Fuse Book Review: “The Book of Beginnings” — Vive les indifférences!

June 8, 2015
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This study is an attempt to “enter” a foreign way of thought and to study the “possibilities” and, by extension, “potential mindsets” of the human mind.

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Book Review: A Classic of Cinematic Fiction — “The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty”

June 2, 2015
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What if Alfred Hitchcock had sat out behind his Holmby Hills bungalow, smoking clove cigarettes and writing chick-lit novels?

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Book Review: Artist Mark Rothko — The Painter as Guru

May 31, 2015
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Biographer Annie Cohen-Solal is perhaps strongest on one thread of Mark Rothko’s narrative: his experience as a Jewish immigrant.

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Book Review: The Sad Tenderness of Patrick Modiano’s “Dora Bruder”

May 30, 2015
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Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano understands that time periods can mesh, interpenetrate, layer up, blend, and blur naturally in the mind.

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Book Review: No “Odd Woman” Out — Vivian Gornick’s Richly Engaging Memoir

May 28, 2015
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Author Vivian Gornick’s discontent is foundational, fertile, unquenchable, except by writing, and quite often funny.

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Poetry Review: “Davey McGravy” — Real Grief, Real Imagination

May 27, 2015
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Part of the maturity of Davey McGravy is how, though each poem has its own shape, each is a necessary part of the whole.

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Book Interview: When Did America Become a Christian Nation?

May 27, 2015
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“Yes, America might have been a nation of Christians, but that was different from being formally a Christian nation.”

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Book Review: “Girl of My Dreams” — A Vivid Look at Hollywood and History

May 23, 2015
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Peter Davis knows Hollywood from the inside and has written a splendid novel about the great days of Tinsel Town with the kind of passion you rarely see anywhere these days.

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Book Review: Oliver Sacks’ “On The Move” — A Mix of the Distant and the Intimate

May 20, 2015
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Oliver Sacks’ On the Move is an absorbing, idiosyncratic, often moving memoir.

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Book Review: The Fiction of Norway’s Per Petterson — The Early Bonds That Bind

May 19, 2015
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I Refuse is one of those novels that only truly comes clear on a second reading, when certain initially apparently innocuous, easily passed-over sentences reverberate with revealed meaning.

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