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☆ Trump campaign throws a COVID-19 lifeline to an indie bookstore in New Jersey, buying Rep. Dan Crenshaw's new book in bulk
▼ + stars: | 2020-07-20 | by ( Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

"It helped us pay the staff, the rent, the insurance and keep the lights on," Books & Greetings owner Kenny Sarfin said. Campaign committees are increasingly making bulk book purchases, which help juice sales numbers and propel politicos' writings onto bestseller lists. The sale follows an earlier $400,000 order of Crenshaw's book by the National Republican Campaign Committee, Politico first reported. The Trump campaign did not reply to several request for comment. While political-committee book purchases are en vogue, it's rare for Republicans — or Democrats — to purchase so many from a mom-and-pop operation.

☆ At 82, Glenda Jackson Commands the Most Powerful Role in Theater
▼ + stars: | 2019-03-27 | by ( Parul Sehgal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

The Broadway play as envisioned by the director Sam Gold, however, is lush; the set, a jewel box, with brassy, Trumpian accents. “Glenda is so lean, and I don’t just mean that physically,” the actor Elizabeth Marvel, who plays Goneril, told me. Jackson is the smallest person on stage, but you won’t notice it — she arrives cascading over the language, dominating it. “Glenda is going to do something very intense, very special, very big,” he said. Glenda Jackson is going to endure this, and you’re going to witness it.”For most of its history, this ritual has been considered too traumatizing for the stage.

Persons: “ King Lear, ”, Deborah Warner, Jackson, Sam Gold, Lear, — “, ” Jackson, Glenda, Elizabeth Marvel, Goneril, Shakespeare, Ophelia, Prince of, ” Gold, Lear I’ve, Gold, “ Glenda, You’re, Glenda Jackson, Charles Lamb, Samuel Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Edmund, Gloucester Locations: Prince of Stratford, ”

☆ British food: 20 best dishes
▼ + stars: | 2019-03-22 | by ( Anna Pallai | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —If British food has come in for a bit of mockery over the years, it isn’t because the recipes are wrong. Eating British food is not just eating. Like 95% of all British cuisine, it is comprised entirely of eggs, flour, milk and fat. By the age of 16, the average British child will have eaten this dish 4,160 times. Layer one pudding on top of another pudding on top of another and cover it all with whipped cream.

Persons: they’re, that’s, Suzanne Plunkett, CNN We’re, Prozac, Margaret Thatcher, carbs Suzanne Plunkett, Proust, haddock, CNN Can’t, Queen, England, it’s, –, Union Jack, Cliff Richard, Johnson Organizations: CNN, Scottish, Wimbledon Locations: England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Yorkshire, Eton, Britain, China, Japan, Union, Dover, Iceland, Europe, America, scone, India

☆ ‘The Festival of Insignificance,’ by Milan Kundera
▼ + stars: | 2015-06-21 | by ( Diane Johnson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

They stroll in the Luxembourg Gardens, they go to a party, they gossip, and we overhear their private reflections. Like writers, ideas have their eras, as undeniable at showing their vintage as gray hair and wrinkles. D’Ardelo, who has just heard from his doctor that his medical tests are negative, nevertheless tells the others that he has cancer. Elsewhere, “On woman’s erotic body there are certain golden sites: I always thought there were three such: the thighs, the buttocks, the breasts. golden sites represents an erotic message.” But these are messages a novelist would not put in the mouth of a modern male character unless he was trying to characterize him as an irredeemable sexist.

Persons: Ramon, Charles, Alain, D’Ardelo, Khrushchev, Caliban, It’s Ramon, “, There’s, ”, Stalin, Kalinin, antic, Marie de Medici, Nietzsche, Sartre, Madame Franck, Sigmund Freud, Henry Miller, Brigitte Bardot Locations: Luxembourg, D’Ardelo’s, Soviet Russia, Eastern Europe, West

☆ Case of the Brooklyn Symbolist
▼ + stars: | 1992-08-30 | by ( Adam Begley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Paul Auster writes novels about lonely souls who try to make meaning out of circumstance -- and he writes under circumstances that look suspiciously meaningful: his office, a small studio apartment, is bare and white and smudged with Brooklyn grime. The window shades are always drawn; were they raised, you would see a brick wall across an air shaft. The same man called the next day and asked again for the venerable detective agency. The novel's protagonist is a solitary writer named Quinn who on three different nights gets a phone call from a man looking for "Paul Auster. Of the Auster Detective Agency."

Persons: Paul Auster, Auster, Pinkerton, Quinn Organizations: The, Auster, Agency Locations: Brooklyn, Glass

☆ Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction
▼ + stars: | 1992-04-19 | by ( Richard B. Woodward | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Finished off with one of his twinkly-eyed laughs, this mealtime anecdote has a more jocular tone than McCarthy's venomous fiction, but the same elements are there. Each of his five previous novels has been marked by intense natural observation, a kind of morbid realism. A cult figure with a reputation as a writer's writer, especially in the South and in England, McCarthy has sometimes been compared with Joyce and Faulkner. Says the historian and novelist Shelby Foote: "McCarthy is the one writer younger than myself who has excited me. I told the MacArthur people that he would be honoring them as much as they were honoring him."

Persons: McCarthy, wildness, blurbed, Joyce, Faulkner, Saul Bellow, Shelby Foote, Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, Hemingway Organizations: MacArthur Locations: hovels, East Tennessee, American, England, Texas, Mexico

☆ FOUR CHARACTERS UNDER TWO TYRANNIES
▼ + stars: | 1984-04-29 | by ( E.L. Doctorow | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

So there is a pattern in the subservience of his characters to Mr. Kundera's will. The elegance lies in the image Mr. Kundera uses to make the observation that both the emigre and the former ruler point their index fingers at whomever they address. In fact, people of this sort, Mr. Kundera tells us, have index fingers longer than their middle fingers. Mr. Kundera is not inclined to dwell on the feel of human experience except as it prepares us for his thought. It is a not unattractive philosophical bent that sends Mr. Kundera into his speculative exercises.

Persons: Kundera's, Antonin Novotny, Kundera, ostentatiously intrudes, Tomas, Sabina, Franz, Tereza, Don Juanism, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Garcia Marquez levitations, Michael Henry Heim's, Bernard Shaw Organizations: Communist Locations: Czech, Paris, Czechoslovakia, Prague, New York City, York, Europe

☆ ‘Nothing Stays Put’ Review: Amy Clampitt, Late Bloomer
▼ + stars: | 1979-05-29 | by ( Malcolm Forbes | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

On May 29, 1979, Mary Jo Salter, then a young editor at the Atlantic, wrote her first fan letter. The recipient was Amy Clampitt, a 58-year-old poet whose work had recently begun to appear in that publication and various other magazines. Ms. Salter praised Clampitt’s poems, which “unfailingly send me to the dictionary at least once, and although I don’t consider this a prerequisite exactly, it does speak for your commitment to precision. You don’t write like other people.”Indeed, Clampitt was one of a kind, her work stubbornly and satisfyingly unclassifiable. She managed to be both, her poems depicting the various locations she visited or called home, but also chronicling escape, immigration, disorientation and dispossession.

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