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June 09, 2003

All That

Signed talk story about a publication party for "The Memory of All That"... Describes the party, held at the Upper West Side home of Phyllis Newman... Tells about actress Betsy Blair and her new book... "How could I have left Gene [Kelly], this wonderful man, after sixteen years of marriage…
December 09, 2002

Unmarital Bliss

Signed talk story about the "Unmarried to Each Other: The Essential Guide to Living Together as an Unmarried Couple" book party and authors Marshall Miller and Dorian Solot... The book’s publication was celebrated at a party the other day, in the Upper West Side home of Ashton Applewhite and Bob…
April 08, 2002

Showboat

PROFILE of Roger Straus, 85, chairman of book publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux... Straus is a link to a publishing past that seems simpler and more heroic than today’s... For a man whose company is now owned by one of Germany’s largest media conglomerates, Roger Straus is oddly persuasive in the…
March 11, 2002

Read All About It

Signed comment about the regional practice of cities getting together and reading a single novel... Writer cites the example of Seattle, whose citizens read “The Sweet Hereafter” by Russell Banks; Chicago (Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”); San Francisco, (“The Grapes of Wrath”); and Milwaukee (David Guterson’s “Snow Falling on…
January 07, 2002

Jamaica

Short story set at Christmastime about a husband who gets his head stuck between the banisters of the stairs right before his wife's book club meeting starts. One of the women shoots a mouse with a bow and arrow during the proceedings. Once a month, Everett Dose's wife, Jillian, hosts…
October 22, 2001

Boys Will Be Girls

BOOKS review of "Billy Wilder’s ‘Some Like It Hot’" (Taschen; $150)… Wilder was one of those steely souls, forged in the Hollywood of the thirties and forties, who were even tougher than the actors they were slated to direct. In 1960, the year of "The Apartment," he looked back…
January 22, 2001

Briefly Noted

Briefly Noted review of “A Line in the Sand: The Alamo in Blood and Memory” (Free Press; $26) by Randy Roberts and James S. Olson... Roberts and Olson do a commendable job of re-creating the murky circumstances of the battle itself, but the real strength of this…
October 02, 2000

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