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Gordon Lish's fascination with memory, fear, & violence WRITING THE TROUBLING TRUTH ROBERT JONES The public fascination with the rness^ F. Scott Fitzgerald made of his life encouraged the...
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35* BOOKS The roar & the silence PERSIAN NIGHTS Diane Johnson Alfred A. Knopf, $17.95, 348 pp. Robert Jones In our age of glorified selfdetermination, the idea of a cosmic jokester...
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FALL BOOK ISSUE Books:LANGUAGE OF 'FACC & OF LOVE THE CAPITALIST REVOLUTION THE LOST LANGUAGE FIFTY PROPOSITIONS...
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manufacturing. Jobs, capital, and the Politician as a Young Ideologue." "the real star quest as far as I was con- production have been permanently Reading Reinhold...
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agement of a laundry, the nephew steals some drugs, resells gang, moreover, is faceless; it seems to be kept around to them, refurbishes his business under the cheeky name of ...
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Books: A COMPANY OF DAMONS THERE are any number of bad books by writers I admire on my shelves. Think of recent misses or near misses like Norman Mailer's Ancient Evenings, Gore Vidal's...
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Romancing the novel HOTEL DU LAC Anita Brookner Pantheon Books, $13.95 184 pp. Robert Jones ROMANCE NOVELS are one of the most conservative forms of fiction, but even they have made...
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17 May 1985: 305 THE MANY CLOAKS OF DISCLOSURE Confessing our selves ROBERT JONES IN his admirable new book, Unquiet Souls: Fourteenth Century Saints and Their Religious Milieu (Chicago,...
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A place in the suburbs LINDEN HILLS Gloria Naylor TIcknor & Fields, $16.95, 320 pp. Robert Jones FOR the women who live on Brewster Place, Linden Hills rises above their dead-end street as a...
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Books: STILL LOST IN THE NAZE IN the foreword to Them, Joyce Carol Oates writes of the woman she knew in Detroit who became the basis for her character, Maureen Wendall. Her initial feeling about...
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The troubling truth
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