No one has satirised New York society quite like Dawn Powell, and in this classic novel she turns her sharp eye and stinging wit on the literary world. Frederick Olliver, an obscure historian and writer, is having an affair with the restively married, beautiful, and hugely successful playwright, Lyle Gaynor. Powell sets a see-saw in motion when Olliver is swept up by the tasteless publishing tycoon, Tyson Bricker, and his new book makes its way onto to the bestseller lists just as Lyle s Broadway career is coming apart. synopsis may belong to another edition of this title.
Review: The 1948 tale of a scholar s roller-coaster affair with a married society type is an anguished love story, a reversal-of-fortune parable, and a blistering satire that rings true today cynical columnists, silly socialites, sinister nighthawks, all in one gorgeous Deco package.
Monday, March 15, 12:00 pm EDT
Artist and consultant Tiffany Jana (
Subtle Acts of Exclusion: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions) discusses their work, a practical handbook that helps individuals and organizations recognize and prevent microaggressions so that all employees and members can feel a sense of belonging. In conversation with Kaki Dimock. Free, with registration.
Ethan Porter and John Mark Hansen:”The Consumer Citizen”
Monday, March 15, 6:00 pm EDT
Ethan Porter will discuss
The Consumer Citizen. He will be joined in conversation by John Mark Hansen. Presented in partnership with The Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics at George Washington University. Free, with registration.
February 5, 2021
Lisa Zeidner
THE WASHINGTON POST – Over the course of three novels, Melanie Finn has taken readers to settings as far-flung as picturesque Swiss towns and rural Tanzania. In her fourth,
The Hare, Finn mostly traps us in an uninsulated, mice-infested cabin in Northern Vermont. This is not a cheery book, but like those Vermont woods in winter, it shimmers with a stark loveliness.
Rosie Monroe, an orphan raised by a cold grandmother, gets a scholarship to study design in New York, and there meets Bennett – seductive, mysterious and 20 years her senior. Bennett sweeps her into his life as the scion of a rich Connecticut family. In the early chapters,
This week on Write On! Radio, Dave welcomes frequent
New York Times Magazine contributor Russell Shorto on-air to discuss his book
Small-Time: A Story of My Family and the Mob.
After the break, novelist and Rutgers professor Lisa Zeidner joins Annie to discuss her new work of nonfiction,
Who Says? Mastering Point of View, which takes a close, practical, and curious look at how narrative voice construction affects reading experience. Write On! Radio – Russell Shorto + Lisa Zeidner
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