Q. Can you identify with the author? the mourner? the rest of business class?
CHECK, PLEASE
The Frog at Forty-Five
by Mimi Sheraton
Arranging the flowers at La Grenouille.
Q. What makes this a successful "Talk" piece? What's the recipe?
Q. Is Lahr critical enough of Pinter's work? The anecdotes are enjoyable, but doesn't Pinter have any failures or shortcomings?
- I Hit Hamlet
- Paul Rudnick
- Behind the scenes at a Brooklyn fiasco.
- Rough Crossings
- Raymond Carver’s letters to Gordon Lish and unedited versions of Carver’s stories reveal an extraordinary battle of wills between an author and his editor.
Q. What's the difference between "editing" and "re-writing"? Is it control? or style? or technique?
Q. Does reading equate to intelligence? Is the science in this article sound? What's being measured that indicates a decline? If writing is an art, is reading an art too?
Guinea-Pigging
Carl Elliot
Should people take drugs for a living?
Q. What makes this article important? Can the "market" solve the problems with current conditions? Can government regulation?
- The Envoy
- Samantha Power
- An assignment to fix Iraq.
- Mystery on Pearl Street
- Burkhard Bilger
- The secrets of a nineteenth-century building.
