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☆ New York and Hollywood Lore by Amor Towles (Martini Optional)
  + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Hamilton Cain | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
TABLE FOR TWO: Fictions, by Amor TowlesFew literary stylists not named Ann Patchett attain best-sellerdom, but Amor Towles makes the cut. His three lauded novels — “Rules of Civility,” “A Gentleman in Moscow” and “The Lincoln Highway” — hung around on lists for months, if not years. The book spans the 20th century, bringing characters from a range of backgrounds into tableaus of deceit and desire. Towles devotes the first section to New York, its wealthy and famous shuffling against strivers and innocents in La Guardia terminals, musty bookstores or immigrant communities. In “The Line,” a naïve Communist builds a lucrative business that steers him to Manhattan, where con games lurk on every corner.
Persons: Amor Towles, Ann Patchett, ”, Towles, Timothy Touchett, Pennybrook, he’s Organizations: Carnegie, Motorola, Nokia Locations: Moscow ”, Lincoln, New York, Los Angeles, La Guardia, Communist, Manhattan
☆ Welcome to Ed Park’s Many-Layered World
  + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Hamilton Cain | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS, by Ed ParkJust after I’d registered for my first semester of college courses, I was meandering among a concourse of clubs and teams, fending off their grinning ambassadors, when a newspaper headline caught my eye: “U.S. Late in his lush, labyrinthine “Same Bed Different Dreams,” Ed Park recreates that moment, twisting the doomed flight’s number into a James Bond motif that resonates throughout the novel. Soon Sheen is an erstwhile Korean American writer turned lackey for GLOAT, a technology conglomerate. “Same Bed, Different Dreams” maps the arc of the mysterious Korean Provisional Government (or K.P.G. (Park’s novel and Echo’s nonfiction novel share a title, based on a Korean proverb and helpfully demarcated by Echo’s comma, the punctuation a possible allusion to the 38th parallel.)
Persons: Ed Park, Ronald Reagan’s, sabers, Ed, James Bond, Sheen, lackey, ’, ”, Drudge, swipes Organizations: Says Soviet, Korean, Jet, Korean Provisional Government Locations: Korean, GLOAT, NCD, Manhattan, Dogskill
☆ Regarding North Bath, Richard Russo Saved His Best for Last
  + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Hamilton Cain | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
SOMEBODY’S FOOL, by Richard RussoWelcome back to North Bath, scrappy sibling to the larger, wealthier Schuyler Springs, down the road in woodsy upstate New York. While Schuyler Springs is famous for wine bars, pricey restaurants and a racetrack, North Bath (or “Bath”) prides itself on a rustic vibe, greasy spoons and scrapyards and grand Victorian fixer-uppers. Set over three days in February 2010, the novel opens with a bleak snapshot: The recession has wreaked havoc on local businesses and families. Russo reprises the cast from “Nobody’s Fool” (1993) and “Everybody’s Fool” (2016), framing their foibles as social comedy in the mode of Charles Portis or Charles Dickens. (There’s an allusion to “Great Expectations.”) As with both authors, tumult brews beneath sunny surfaces.
Persons: Richard Russo, scrappy, Schuyler, Richard Russo’s, “, Donald “ Sully ” Sullivan, Sully’s, Peter, Ruth, Russo, Charles Portis, Charles Dickens Locations: North Bath, Schuyler Springs, woodsy, New York, Bath
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