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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES...Music is the mathematics of the gods = PYTHAGORAS...Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I think therefore I am troubled = RENEE DESCARTES<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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Monday, September 1, 2014

His Words, My Format

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Click here for an excerpt
This is because Powell takes as her subject the war
as experienced not over there, but over here.
[Here being New York, prior to Pearl Harbor]

More specifically, A Time to Be Born is populated
by the type of people who plotted the war
from the safety of oak-paneled conference rooms,
wrote searching  essays about military strategy
in the nation’s popular magazines and newspapers,
and debated its finer points in the most exclusive
Manhattan restaurants and hotel bars,
over the best martinis.

In Powell’s novel, the war serves
as a brilliant excuse
to throw a party...


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Nathaniel Rich is the author of the 2013 novel, Odds Against Tomorrow,
the 2008 novel, The Mayor's Tongue and the 2005 nonfiction book,
San Francisco Noir: The City in Film Noir from 1940 to the Present.

Rich has written essays and criticism for  The New York Review of Books,
Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, Harper's Magazine,  
Rolling Stone, and Slate.


The complete hyperlinked essay
originally appeared in what
can only be described as
the skeletal remains
of  NEWSWEEK.


The next Dawn Powell page is here.
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