Carrie Bradshaw slept on a fold-out couch Oct 3, 2008
" A New Yorker by design and inclination, Bushnell arrived in the West Village in the late 1970s from semi-rural, leafy and cosy Connecticut, via several writing courses at Rice University in Texas. She had been plotting a New York life from childhood. "Like many people I probably arrived here with about $50. I spent my first night in New York and loved it so much, I thought, I never want to leave. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Triumph of Victoriana Sep 13, 2008
Cox describes his reading tastes as "not particularly sophisticated" (despite reading English at Cambridge) but has had a passion for the mid-Victorians from childhood. He has vivid memories of a particular edition of David Copperfield - the book's original illustrations are unforgettable to him - then Great Expectations and then the rest of Charles Dickens. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
College Daze Aug 15, 2008
Instead of helping high school grads grow up, colleges prolong childhood ... But another problem with today's colleges is more insidious: They are no longer a good place for young people to make the transition from childhood to adulthood. (Forbes)
Change and loss Jun 21, 2008
"The part of the earth that I've always felt most at ease with," she says, "is not the ground, but sort of the water's edge." During her childhood, trips to the seaside also represented "a cleansing and an absence of so many of the things that came to bring me down in the everyday world: people's behaviour, people's attitudes, people's looks, people's curiosity about us and my parents. The sea's . . . everyone's equal in the face of something like that." From early on, she was conscious of her... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Esbjrn Svensson Jun 17, 2008
Svensson's eclecticism was not calculating, however, rather it was the enthusiasm of a piano obsessive who had started out in a rock duo with his childhood drummer friend Ostrom, and ended up a Glenn Gould fan. He was unabashed about borrowing the light-shows, smoke effects and electronics of the rock and pop worlds and was a master of the grandiloquent set-piece climax. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
City prominent in Hudson native’s newest novel Jun 12, 2008
Orville meets a young woman studying the history of the area, Miranda Braack, a victim of childhood polio, and with her help he begins to understand why he is so resistant to his hometown ... When he started to read in the Register-Star about the 1983 bicentennial, about the whalers, and the proprietors idea of a utopia, it explained my childhood to me, Bergman said. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
Linehan family proclaims her innocence online Jun 4, 2008
The items say: "Free Me," referring to the diminutive of her name she has used since childhood (Mechele is pronounced 'meeshell'). The proceeds go to her legal fund. (Anchorage Daily News)
Autism and Schizophrenia Linked Apr 1, 2008
Autism shows up in early childhood and is characterized by problems with social interactions and communications, including understanding nonverbal cues or the inability to talk. Schizophrenia, by contrast, usually doesn't manifest itself until early adulthood. (U.S. News & World Report)
'Vain, querulous and a genius' Mar 8, 2008
It places itself and its reader at the border between childhood and adolescence, the portal to adulthood - at a crucial approaching point of change - then uses images of imprisonment, stagnation and repetition. "Good prose should be fused with the light of poetry,' she wrote, "prose should be like poetry; poetry should make sense like prose. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
A soldier who picked up his pen Feb 24, 2008
A. I read Tolstoy in my childhood, but my favorite writer is [Erich Maria] Remarque; no one described war better. I saw and felt the same way as his soldiers in the First World War. (Boston Globe)
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Feb 23, 2008
Nowadays we tend to blame poverty, social injustice, parental abuse, a difficult childhood - anything and anyone except the criminal. As Salander says, it's as if we no longer believe anyone has a will of their own. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
A life of their own Jan 26, 2008
You know the style: "My mother is squinting in the fierce sunlight and holding, for some reason, a dead pheasant. She is dressed in old-fashioned lace-up boots, and white gloves. She looks absolutely miserable. My father, however, is in his element, irrepressible as ever, and has on his head that grey velvet trilby from Prague I remember so well from my childhood." The unpractised novelist cleaves to the static, because it is much easier to describe than the mobile: it is getting these people... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Post a comment Dec 31, 2007
During her childhood, till assassination she achived a lot of goals which she accomplished and, having been elected twice for the nation, and on her third campaign rally a suide bomber had taken her life which has just left memories for the entire nation and may God bless her sould in peace. Amen. (International Herald Tribune)
'Into the Wild': More than a traditional story of heroism Dec 12, 2007
Alex is certainly on a quest but it may be more of a journey toward growing up and coming to terms with the pain of childhood, than it is the epic "hero's journey" he has in mind. Then again, when subjected to analysis, what heroic figure of the past -- or of literature -- couldn't be dismissed as an emotionally troubled soul. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Remembering absolutely dauntless writer Nov 11, 2007
It was easy to make fun of Mailer, with his chesty and sometimes foolish pronouncements, his nerve as a man in his 80s to write a 450-page novel about the childhood of Hitler, as told by an underling of Satan, with a bibliography citing Milton, Tolstoy and Freud. But mocking Mailer was really just a way of putting down ourselves. (MSNBC -- News)
Does a delivery coach help? Care to share a love letter? Introducing kids to classical music Contest: World's Worst Book Title Nov 10, 2007
Who was born in Newgate, and during a life of continu d Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her own brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv d Honest and died a Penitent. Written from her own Memorandums. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Dublin 2.0: Modern Irish capital still harbors traces of colorful past Oct 29, 2007
In just a few blocks of walking through the stately Georgian neighborhoods near St. Stephen's Green, we passed the childhood home of Oscar Wilde (a statue of the literary wit slouches on a boulder in a park across the street, looking not a little like Hugh Grant), and the birthplace of the Duke of Wellington. Apparently the British military hero and prime minister did not care to be reminded of his Irish roots. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Independent Reader: Different views of family Sep 22, 2007
Now, in Leslie Garis's elegant, insightful, and fascinating memoir, House of Happy Endings (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 8 pp of photos, $25) learn what it was like to live in a family of writers who created those halcyon childhood stories. "We were a nice family once, weren't we?" Leslie Garis muses. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Fall books preview: Here's what's big and why Sep 6, 2007
Loosely based on the author's childhood, about a boy who leaves his Spokane Indian reservation for an all-white high school ... Why it's big: Readers first encountered McCourt's long-suffering mother in Angela's Ashes, his best-selling memoir of his impoverished Irish childhood ... What it's about: The conservative Supreme Court Justice recounts his life story from childhood (born to a teenage mother, he was raised by his strict grandfather) to the top court in the land. (USA Today)
Beautiful tapestry from ugly threads Aug 6, 2007
" Three primary strands in the book - Christianity, Judaism and Islam - are all represented in their extremity by the protagonists and, in particular, their parents. Set in the US, Iraq and Australia, it tells the story of maths genius Leela May Moore from Promised Land in South Carolina and musical virtuoso Mishka Bartok from the Daintree Forest in Queensland who meet in a Boston subway where Mishka, a reclusive, socially inept violinist is playing, losing himself in the cavernous, hypnotic... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
‘Actor's actor' keeps the shows coming Jul 31, 2007
What was your childhood like. I think I'm proud of the fact that I didn't have a conventional upbringing. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
Double vision Jun 30, 2007
Ralph suffered a terrible series of childhood illnesses - chronic cystitis, then osteomyelitis, a bone infection, which was initially thought to be a potentially fatal tumour in her hip - which led her to block some things out. "The doctors were doing test after test and they were all excruciatingly painful," says Barker. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
The great escape - part 2 Jun 23, 2007
The story of Augustin Meaulnes, his unassuming friend Franois Seurel and Meaulnes's romantic adventure between childhood and adulthood was dyed by the scenery passing by ... Childhood is where the most intense experiences of holidays and books seem to gather. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Sydney Writers' Festival opening night address May 31, 2007
" That was my true introduction to the realities of the writing game. I grew up in a town on the west coast of Scotland. We lived on a housing estate outside Glasgow that looked into the waters of the Firth of Clyde. It was a colourful childhood informed by the regular heartaches, but to look at our houses you d have thought we were the very height of optimistic fashion. Those housing schemes, as we called them, or Projects, as the Americans preferred, were the outcome of a certain kind of 1960s... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Better late than never May 31, 2007
It is far less closely aligned to her own life than Tractors, but its starting point draws on an episode from her childhood, when she and her mother worked as pea-pickers in Lincolnshire. "It was blissful," she recalls. (Guardian Unlimited)
How pop makes us sick May 5, 2007
Or that a weekly dose of Pussycat Dolls might rob a young girl of her childhood, propelling her into a world of sexual competition and anxiety, a whole lifetime of which is due to arrive at her doorstep soon enough. The theorists who downplay the impact of popular culture end up downplaying the importance of all culture. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
U.S. Communists manifest Apr 22, 2007
For Filardo, 56, who wears wrinkled button-down shirts and quotes Leo Tolstoy and Alexander Pushkin in everyday conversation, the relics are a way to understand an era he has been fascinated by since childhood. Taped to his office walls are photographs of Sally Belfrage, an activist and journalist who covered the civil rights movement. (SunSpot.net)
Adolf, you old son of the Devil Mar 17, 2007
"There is very little known about Hitler's childhood," he says. Hitler concealed much of it, to the best of his ability. (The Age, Australia -- Entertainment)
• People You Should know: She helps job seekers boost their images Mar 12, 2007
What I miss most from my childhood: Practicing my saxophone in the garage and marching in the Elks Band. Playing sports for St. Cat's and going to dances. (Racine Journal Times, WI)
Q&A with Martin Amis Feb 7, 2007
She was in the first draft, but only in one scene, just a tiny thing from her childhood. And then I realized, if he addressed the whole thing to her, made her the central, the only remaining human being he still loved, then it gives it all kinds of improved focus. (Time.com)
Tillie Olsen, 94; author with a slim output of raw, powerful works Jan 4, 2007
But she also wrote about the hidden injuries of childhood and the inner worlds of blue-collar men an impoverished coal miner and an alcoholic seaman. "I had a life that was constantly filling me with a kind of outrage at what was being said or written that was not true as I saw it," Olsen said in 1981. (Los Angeles Times)
