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The first story in Olive, “Again is Arrested,” which focuses not on Olive but on Jack Kennison, who has retired to her hometown of Crosby. Formerly a professor at Harvard, now he’s “just an old man
Written in plain, straightforward prose, “Passing” is the memoir of a man who stuffs himself with facts and information about brain tumors and cancer in hopes that knowledge will help him get through the anguish of watching his beautiful wife die.
Conrad wanted to create a universal story, so he deliberately left out details, but Kuper’s explicit setting lets him introduce the perspective of people from the Congo, who are the bewildered victims of madness and greed.
"Just Watch Me,” then, is both an exciting crime story and a revealing exploration of the psychology of a master criminal. The writing is tight and vivid, the characters are convincingly portrayed and the action is nonstop.
One of the most striking moments in Sarah M. Broom’s enthralling memoir, “The Yellow House,” comes near its end, the story of a uniquely American family and a uniquely American city, beautifully told.
The well-known crime writer Lawrence Block has parlayed that last scenario into two volumes of short stories, the first inspired by works of Edward Hopper and the second, favorite paintings of his authors.
Choreographer Mark Morris and performer/writer Julie Andrews would seem to have little in common — though I would definitely enjoy eavesdropping on their conversation, should they ever meet — but both have new memoirs out this fall.
Kinney, who has become an advocate for limiting screen time for children, has opened a community Bookshop called An Unlikely Story in his adopted hometown of Plainville, Massachusetts, where he also has his studio.
Author Peter Handke received his Nobel Literature Prize on Tuesday amid criticism of him in Sweden and abroad as an apologist for Serb war crimes in the 1990s.
Clive James, the Australian broadcaster, writer, critic and poet who charmed generations of Britons with his humour and wit, has died at the age of 80, his agents said.