I was in high school, and my mom, inveterate finder of great new books, brought home Lorrie Moore's newly published first story collection, Self-Help (1985). She left it sitting on the side table by the big checkered chair in the den. I picked up the ...
Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, having Mary Gaitskill's story collection Bad Behavior (1988) on your bookshelf meant something. Gaitskill told stories about secretaries getting spanked, mopey young women caught in sadomasochistic affairs, ...
Ricardo Montalban, one of Hollywood's first Latino leading men, who had a long career as a television and movie actor but whose lingering fame perhaps owes most to a less august role as the debonair concierge of "Fantasy Island," died Wednesday in Los ...
Ricardo Montalbán, one of Hollywood’s first Latino leading men, who had a long career as a television and movie actor but whose lingering fame perhaps owes most to a less august role as the debonair concierge of “Fantasy Island,” died on Wednesday in ...
Maybe you were there. In the very late 1960s, communes began to spring up — oh, the analogy is irresistible: like mushrooms — in New England. The farms, as they were known in the typically down-home vernacular of the day, were collectives of ...
This is what Peter Carey does: He goes to the asshole of the earth and tells what he finds there. In his new novel , Anna Xenos is a radical on the run in the early '70s. She fetches up in a commune near the town of Yandina in Queensland, Australia, ...
Mary Miss, left, aided by Megan Firestone, mounts a disc for her art project, intended to suggest a catastrophic flood. HULKING over this bucolic college town like Frankenstein’s redoubt, the National Center for Atmospheric Research is a constant ...
ABOUT a year ago I started to notice something odd on those evenings when I was channel surfing. When I passed through PBS, I often caught sight of a bunch of impeccably groomed women in shiny gowns singing gorgeous harmonies with great sincerity. ...
The Novel, 2.0 Will the Internet change fiction as we know it? Walter Kirn posted Oct. 10, 2006 The first 10 pages of The Light of Evening took me about an hour to read. My husband mocked me from the other couch: "Have you gotten to Page 4 yet?" I'm ...
MY mother, who was born in 1940, reports that adulthood used to be cool. “When I was growing up,” she says, “you longed for the day when you would become an adult, and life and fun would begin.” It’s hard to believe that there was ever a ...
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