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...most prominent is Martha Grimes, a sometime teacher of fiction at Johns Hopkins, who ironically was unable to get her work published in Britain until now. Her current offering, I Am the Only Running Footman (Little, Brown; 206 pages; $15.95) -- named, like all her work, for an actual pub -- keenly observes Britain's myriad social classes and offers a persuasive story of family obsession and revenge. Keith Heller attempts the double voyage of writing not only about England but about the early 18th century. His debut, Man's Illegal Life, was a tour de force about urban turmoil...
...parka to ward off the oceanside chill, he comes off like a cross between a Roman senator and a retired longshoreman as he hobnobs with the crew, rehearses the cast and then stands back to watch the action, his eyes twinkling. Between takes, Mailer crosses the street to another pub and peers in at noisy real- life revelers. "Look at this," he roars with proprietary delight. "That's classic Provincetown...
...unemployment. James' interview with a pub manager revealed that he knew "bugger all" about the wine trade, and he flunked the psychological test for guards in the London subway. But he worked briefly and erratically as a librarian, factory hand, statistician and publisher's assistant. His digs were more makeshift than his jobs and included, besides a succession of repressive rooming houses, a converted coal barge with a toilet that tended to fill up with the bilges and a paper mattress wrapper on the floor of somebody else's room. One of his roosts was so tiny that the chief...
...success of his first film, "Crocodile" Dundee, and he's likely to sound like the laid-back grandpa he is rather than the hottest actor to come up from Down Under since Mel Gibson got his driver's license. "We're doing real well," deadpans the self-described former pub lout. "And I'm feelin' real well." Bet you are, mate. The story of a crocodile poacher who trades the dangers of the Australian Outback for the perils of Manhattan's urban jungle, Dundee was already the top-grossing film in Australian history when it opened...
...Carla Bley Band, a sextet jazz rhythm section, will perform at Cambridge's Jonathan Swift's Pub on Wednesday November...