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...Updike can always charm a reader. He's not playing the deconstruction game for the sake of some high theoretical purpose. He's poking fun at the theory itself...
DIVORCE THESE DAYS IS OUR PARIS in the '20s, an adventure of alienation and unfamiliar cooking that we write novels about. Too many novels and too whiny the reader decides. The genre is one that is not petering out but should. Until then, an amiable and cheerfully unwhiny exception is Thomas McGuane's Nothing but Blue Skies. The author's hero is a fortyish Deadrock, Montana, ^ businessman named Frank Copenhaver, who misplaces his marbles when his wife Gracie packs her bags. In this addlepated condition, he galumphs about drinking too much (or not enough; this isn't clear), getting into...
...been eclipsed by Kip. Occasionally, the author's design becomes almost too insistent, finding in Hiroshima and Nagasaki not only the explosion of the whole world of nation-states, but also the final cruelty of the West upon the East. By then, however, he has thoroughly enveloped the reader in as rare and spellbinding a net of dreams as any that has emerged in recent years...
...reading news articles with a critical eye, the reader can learn of the internal bickering and bureaucratic infighting which usually takes place behind closed doors in the government. Just ask yourself, "Who is this unnamed official, and how does his message benefit...
Fred Cohen of Out of Town News has not yet decided whether to distribute Halberstadt's publication. Low costs and reader response will determine whether he markets the newspaper...