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It says so right here. We "bellow," says the Los Angeles Times. And "howl." We reach "fever pitch." Our "rage sharpens" our rhetoric, says the Washington Post. We "unleash our wrath," says the Baltimore Sun. I always trust the newspapers, of course, but I've searched myself for signs of...
DIED. GWENDOLYN BROOKS, 83, prolific poet who, in 1950, was the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, for literature; in Chicago (see Eulogy, below).
Quick! who signs million-dollar paychecks for Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Douglas, Dennis Quaid, Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese? Would you believe a German company with a name that could come from a Mel Brooks farce? Cologne-based Splendid Media is co-producing the movie Traffic, which Zeta-Jones, Douglas...
For a long time, I've pondered this thing that we do called writing. I've looked at my words sometimes as if they belonged to a stranger. But each time I teach GWENDOLYN BROOKS, each time I revisit her poems, her words, they climb up on my knees and...
Gourmet's new editor attributes much of his success to the positive influence of classmate Ben Brooks '70, a fiction writer.