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...biography??s twelve chapters, arranged in roughly chronological order, portray Shakespeare learning his craft, starting a family and building a career in the competitive world of Elizabethan theater—all to shed light on the historical context linked to the playwright’s masterpieces...
...book about London now, one that certainly inspired some of this incomplete “postcard,” but I’m not much inclined to finish it anymore than I’m anxious to start Peter Ackroyd’s biblical “biography?? of London. All I really need is my small map with hundreds of streets listed on it, a sort of basic table of contents to the ur-text, the city itself, “the most complete compendium of the world,” as James called London...
...prolific writer of articles, books and columns, Maddox is particularly fond of the genre of biography??“it’s better paid than journalism,” she says—and also writes numerous book review for The Washington Post, The Times and The Times Literary Supplement...
After summarizing her motorcycle biography??which felt more like a camouflaged warning or a “proceed at your own risk” disclaimer—Stith motioned for me to hop onto the back seat of her Suzuki, and we sped up Plympton Street, first to Somerville and then on to Boston...
...those of you who don’t know, your House file is a treasure trove of information. It reads like a good biography??with the added benefit that it is entirely about you. The file contains such juicy documents as: your application to Harvard, complete with the markings from the admissions officer who read it; your roommate request form, including an administrator’s short synopsis of your personality and your first-year proctor’s evaluation of you at the end of your freshman year. (Yes, Tom, I saw the crack you made about...