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...professor, Stanislaus was the invisible man in Joyce's life. In this book, he emerges as the perfect foil. Joyce was mercurial, Stanislaus was phlegmatic. Joyce drank, Stanislaus was abstemious. Joyce was referred to as "Sunny Jim," Stanislaus as "Bile Beans." In the Dublin days with which this memoir begins and ends, one belief surmounted all brotherly differences -the belief that Jim had genius...
...Stanislaus lived to complete his memoir, Editor Richard Ellmann is certain that he would have pressed the claim that he saved his brother from the triple threat of dissipation, dubious friends and inertia. Joyce never admitted the need to be saved from anything, but Jung himself is reported to have said after reading Ulysses that Joyce would have gone mad had he not written the book...
...husband had written its introduction, she almost broke up a dinner party with her angry objections. Brann's international drawing power came back to life too. As it went into its second printing in Texas, a London publisher prepared a British edition of Author Carver's skillful memoir of the pamphleteer whom curmudgeonly H. L. Mencken once saluted as "a past master of invective...
...Ross's The New Yorker. Thurber was then 32; The New Yorker had just turned two; and Editor Ross, at 34, was already the whip-wielding crank who was to inspire and bedevil staffers until his death in 1951. In the November Atlantic Humorist Thurber started a serialized memoir of Ross by recalling their early days together...
...reduced to complaining: ''I can't get adjusted to the you that got adjusted to me." From here on, she bounces all over the Freudian landscape, sometimes backed by a hot sax (Repressed Hostility Blues), sometimes by a relaxed trumpet (Real Sick Sounds). In a childhood memoir called The Guilty . Rag, she combines a brassy red-hot mamma complex with a mocking, rocking bit of father asphyxiation...