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...blazing satires of academic life (Changing Places, Small World). Here he falters because he doesn't know TV operatives as well as he knows the profs he studied closely during his teaching career. Also, Tubby has a preoccupation with Kierkegaard, clearly important to the author but not to the reader...
Bass' book is a worthwhile read. His background in naturalist nonfiction makes his physical descriptions vivid. His own voice is strong: his calmness seeps into the reader's mind...
Under her supervision, Gazette improvements include the introduction of desktop publishing, the addition of a full-time calendar editor, a new, more reader-friendly design and a shift from publishing on Friday to Thursday, allowing for more timely arrival...
...stories that provide a psychological history for Beller's characters. These pieces trace the young adulthood of Alex Fader, a fatherless only child who tries hard to suppress his love for an often elusive mother. Ultimately, though, Alex forges an enviable closeness with her, and that leaves the reader with hope for all the floundering, grownup versions of him in this spirited collection...
...choice in the book is between howling misery and howling laughter, and the reader veers toward laughter. Long passages should be read aloud: "My spankings were a kind of family sporting event ... Unless Mother managed to get me down in a corner, she would have to hold one of my wrists to keep me within flyswatter distance while she flailed in my direction. At best, she made contact about ten percent of the time ... Locked together this way, the two of us would spin from room to room with Grandma at our perimeter in her wheelchair, scolding and bitching...