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Book Review: “With Ballet in My Soul” — The Vicissitudes of an Impresario

March 24, 2017
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Eva Maze drops names and paints a heady picture of the high life, but she does so with the disarming charm that permeates most of her memoir.

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Book Review: The “Inexhaustibility” of Angela Carter

March 20, 2017
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May this superb biography, The Invention of Angela Carter, spark more interest in this amazing writer, especially in the United States.

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Book Review: Nuff Said? — “What Playwrights Talk About When They Talk About Writing”

March 20, 2017
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 Jeffrey Sweet has provided a handy oral history of the ways playwriting has changed over three generations.

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Book Review: Peter Handke — A Writer At War With Himself

February 28, 2017
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The imperative to engage with landscape, and thus leave or at least minimize the self, has become of great importance to Peter Handke.

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Book Review: “Nicotine” — A Fresh Take on Addiction

February 27, 2017
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A beautiful, if somewhat meandering, series of vignettes on the writer’s lifelong relationship with cigarettes.

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Book Review: “The Shipwrecked Mind” — Leaving the Carnage Behind

February 23, 2017
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Mark Lilla argues that the creed of the reactionary mind can be just as radical (and disturbing) as any revolutionary ideology.

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Book Review: “The Year of the Comet” — Surviving History

February 22, 2017
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This is the work of an extremely talented writer whose prose is spare and exact and has an authenticity that marks him as the real thing.

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Book Review and Commentary: Albert Murray’s Non-fiction – A Balm in Columbia

February 21, 2017
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At his best, Albert Murray is a thinker passionately in love with thinking, a virtuoso of verbal music, an American to his core.

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A Compendium of Consolations: The Words of Albert Murray

February 21, 2017
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“Art . . . is . . . fundamental equipment for existence on human terms.” — Albert Murray

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Book Review: “In the Midnight Hour” — The Tempestuous Life of Wilson Pickett

February 17, 2017
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Tony Fletcher’s research is impeccable, his sources are unimpeachable, and his style is thoroughly engaging.

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