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...portrait of modern marriage and its betrayals. (It was, perhaps, a pre-echo of his pending divorce.) The book won wide praise and whetted critical interest in this second work, which has been appearing in snippets for nearly ten years. If the fully assembled fiction is not the magnum opus that some had anticipated, its local colors and in delible miniatures more than justify a long autumn's read...
...struck by the remarkable parallel between Shakespeare and Beethoven at the end of their creative careers. Writing for the string quartet medium. Beethoven penned the relatively traditional Op. 127. Them, in order of composition, came Op. 132, 130, 133 and 131--all in a fresh kind of musical language. Opus 135, of lesser quality, reverted to an earlier style; and Beethoven ended his career with part of a work, a new finale...
That rubdown was inspiration-and the initial field research-for a projected 800-page magnum opus on sex, a work that Talese hoped would do for Eros what his earlier books had done for the New York Times and the Mafia. Instead, it has become perhaps the most famous unwritten volume in publishing history. Four years and a thousand orgasms later, not a word of Talese's vast researches has appeared in print...
...coming months. "I make my own deadlines," he says. Indeed he does. Until his editors at Doubleday read this month's Esquire piece, they will not have seen a word from Talese. Doubleday has put up $ 1.2 million, half of which he has already collected, for the sex opus plus a future book...
...example, have capitalist societies drifted into what Smith would have regarded as an unnatural combination: inflation in the midst of recession? Has Smith's "invisible hand" of supply and demand lost its grip? To find the answers, Church and Reporter-Researcher Valerie Gerry plunged into Smith's opus and the works of capitalism's later exegetes. "It was a crash course in all those people everybody quotes but nobody reads," Gerry explains. "We treated Adam Smith and our previous cover subjects, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes, as news sources." Gerry also interviewed dozens of living experts...