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Fuse Book Review: Novelist Jay McInerney — Nimble Chronicler of America’s Upper Class

Jay McInerney’s characters may live on exotic mixed drinks and fine wines, but they still suffer moral dilemmas and have consciences they cannot silence.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: American fiction, Bright, Jay McInerney, knopf, New York City, Precious Days, Thomas Filbin

Film Review: “Heaven Knows What” — Hitting the Mean Streets For Real

The Safdie brothers are willing to look at hard truths, creating a movie that retains the immediacy and the tragedy of addiction.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Ben and Joshua Safdie, drug addiction, Heaven Knows What, heroin addiction, New York City

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

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

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: memoir, New York City, The Odd Woman and the City, Vivian Gornick

Short Fuse: The Unmerited Power of Art

In his latest novel, Michael Cunningham writes about Manhattan’s art world with canny insight and sympathy. But he goes beyond that, anchoring his story not only in beauty, as it is constantly reconceived and imagined, but in considerations of love, sex, morality, and mortality. By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 256 pages, […]

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: By Nightfall, Michael Cunningham, New York City, Short Fuse, Visual Arts

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