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DIED. OTIS CHANDLER, 78, California beach boy who, during his aggressive 20-year tenure as publisher of the Los Angeles Times in the 1960s and '70s, transformed the paper into one of the country's premier exemplars of daily journalism; in Ojai, Calif. The great-grandson of Harrison Gray Otis, who became publisher and part-owner of the Times in 1882, Chandler--a surfer who loved racing his Porsche--was the last in his family to head the paper...
...renowned poet may be to appear with no clothes at all. That takes a rare degree of bravado, talent or self-delusion. Struggling to know which of those qualities he possesses is Larry Campbell, the neurotic young poet hero of Lynn Coady's very funny new novel, Mean Boy (Doubleday Canada; 382 pages), a sharp take on the follies of poets, academia and the small world of Canadian literature in the 1970s...
...kitschy tourist zone on Prince Edward Island where his parents run a Highwayman Motor Hotel, and he leaves the island to attend university. He takes heart in another poet's observation about those tough writing days when the poem grins back while "I chop it like a mean boy." And there are plenty of days when Larry can see a poem in his typewriter grinning back at him, displaying what he imagines as a mixture of embarrassment, pity and superiority: "I may be a terrible poem, it grins, but at least I'm not a terrible poet. At least...
...Coady, who lives in Edmonton, grew up in Cape Breton and writes with authority about life on the East Coast, as she did in her critically acclaimed novels Strange Heaven and Saints of Big Harbour. In Mean Boy, the geek hero's adventures with his mentor and experiments with alcohol, women and new forms of poetic expression (plus his unlikely friendship with a behemoth football player) all provide fodder for comedy. And somewhere in the haze of hangovers, the novel also manages to examine the nature of poetry, poets and the underappreciated fine art of growing...
...story starts out in the traditional boy-meets-girl soap opera vein, but with a twist. In this case, it’s girl meets girl...