Great Neck , by Jay Cantor. Alfred A. Knopf, 703 pages, $27.95.
Every author has an obligation to the reader’s right hand. The left hand already belongs to him: It’s holding all the pages that have been turned so far. The right hand, though, is sending electronic pulses back to the reader’s fickle brain, precise Read More
Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live , by Tom
Shales and James Andrew Miller. Little, Brown, 594 pages, $25.95.
Saturday Night , the original name of the show later and better known as Saturday Night Live , had to make do with its shorter name during its first season, Read More
So it began at the dry-cleaners, at a smidgen past 9 a.m. last Sept. 11, when someone said a plane had hit the World Trade Center, and Chris, the Jamaican tailor, turned from his sewing machine in the front window (he had a radio on low) and said, “Two. Two planes have hit the towers. Read More
Think of this as a memoir of a love affair-of the beginning, anyway, of a long, strange, curious, sometimes deluded, sometimes dangerous love affair with the city. A memoir prompted in part by last Sept. 11, and this one.
Prompted more by the fact that I’m just about the only person I know who hasn’t Read More
The Sexual Life of Catherine M. , by Catherine Millet. Grove Press, 209 pages, $23.
Catherine Millet’s astonishing memoir of physical desire, frequent orgiastic sex and rich psychic debasement, The Sexual Life of Catherine M. , was first published in France last year as La Vie Sexuelle de Catherine M . It was greeted with Read More
