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...giants he worshipped. In A Night at the Majestic, Richard Davenport-Hines brilliantly reimagines this unique-in-art-history event, setting the five-star diners in their Modernist context, between Picasso's first and shocking foray into Cubism, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon of 1906-7, and Joyce's revolutionary novel, Ulysses, in 1922. The ambitious Schiff was pinning his hopes for the evening - and for his own reputation in the arts - on the first, and what would be the only meeting between Proust and Joyce, two novelists who, as Davenport-Hines writes, "were destroying 19th century literary certainties as surely...
...his 1939 novel Ask The Dust, John Fante looked at the folks around him in Los Angeles and saw "faces with the blood drained away, tight faces, worried, lost. Faces like flowers torn from their roots and stuffed into a pretty vase, the colors draining fast...
...Fante's novel was a dirge-hymn to L.A. at the time when the first wave of immigrants, teeming west from the plains and north from Mexico, collided in a movie dream gone sour. Published to little note, it slowly found important devotees. Charles Bukowski, L.A.'s signature outlaw author, used to channel the book's hero, shouting "I am Bandini, Arturo Bandini!" Screenwriter Robert Towne fell in love with the book when researching his script for Chinatown, also set in the '30s. Now, a generation later, he has made an elegiac movie of Ask the Dust...
...peers and a 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...
...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...