ARTICLES Undomesticated The Life & Times of J. F. Powers Patricia Hampl Suitable Accommodations An Autobiographical Story of Family Life: The Letters ofJ. F. Powers, 1942-1963 Edited by...
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Patricia Hampl The "rise of the memoir" (the usual descriptor, making autobiographical writing a monster lunging from the deep) has been vexing critics for the past quarter-century. Why are all...
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books Summer Reading Patricia Hampl One cannot read a book, one can only reread it,” Vladimir Nabokov famously remarked. “A good reader, a major reader,” he explained, is...
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Books A. Harmon Still Life & Matisse D,. t",t t"q e$ O O 20 Blue Arabesque A Search for the Sublime Patricia HampI Harcourt, $22, 224 pp, G reat paradoxes are those that stop,...
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Books Summer Reading Patricia Hampl The memoir, always vulnerable to a gut-punch (too self-indulgent, too self-absorbed), has taken some extra licks lately. The James Frey fray, in particular,...
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Guinness's tipping policies and habit of paying restaurant bills by check might perhaps have been excised by a ruthless editor, and when you read a sentence like "The Guinnesses were often...
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THE SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION It's an operation on the heart Patricia Hampi ill Jack, my old friend from grade school, has the cute one, sometimes winked)....
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Patricia Hampl Patricia Hampl is the author of Virgin Time (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), a memoir. She is also the editor of Burning Bright (Ballantine), a new anthology of sacred poetry from...
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