It’s hard to describe what I found so appealing about Jerre Mangione’s The Dream And The Deal.

Woody Allen stand-ins work best when played by Woody Allen himself. Allen’s voice is so distinctive, and his heroes generally so him despite cosmetic name changes (Alvy Singer, Larry Lipton), that in other hands the …

By the time I turned twenty, I had come to despise Zelda Fitzgerald. It was no fault of hers. I knew nothing about her, really, except that she had married F. Scott and lost her …

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They’re all dead.But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.

When I open a book and begin to read, and I have …

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