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...curtain line of Allen's best-received work, Annie Hall--is amplified on the back cover, where the paragraph containing the line appears in toto. It is also to be found on page 114, again in full, and at numerous other points in the text. If the reader prefers excerpts from Love and Death, or Bananas, or the early nightclub routines, or just pictures with explanations, they're all there as well, sprinkled liberally through the text...
...more one learns about novelists, the more one realizes how little they make up from scratch. Those who believe in fiction, however, will find such matters of secondary interest. Will Knott, who sketches his surroundings on the backs of K-ration boxes, speaks to William Wharton's ideal reader when he says that his drawing "makes things more real; at the same time, not so real." -By R.Z. Sheppard
NONFICTION: The Correspondence of Boris Pasternak and Olga Freidenberg, edited by Elliott Mossman ∙ The Diary of Virginia Woolf, edited by Anne Olivier Bell Going to the Dance, Arlene Croce Love, Eleanor, Joseph P. Lash Midnights, Alec Wilkinson The Red Smith Reader, edited by Dave Anderson
...academic achievement, featuring meaningful friendships with influential professors and culminating in attractive fellowships and job-offers in short, just the sort of years that lend themselves, in all but the most prudent hands, to reminiscence of a singularly smug and irritating nature--especially, one might add, to an undergraduate reader...
...although we may feel twangs of animosity towards the players, we nevertheless long for them to perform. Americans revere gridiron heros more than they do the boys of summer. Does the country stay at home to watch baseball doubleheaders like it does Monday night football? Do Distraught women write Reader's Digest complaining that bug-eyed husbands watch baseball too much? The truth is at least half the top-rated shows have been Superbowls, and while most football teams are financial successes, some baseball teams never break even...