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Wendy Lesser

By Wendy Lesser 4/17/00 12:00am

A Writer’s Midlife Crisis Made Seriously Funny

Blue Angel , by Francine Prose. Harper Collins, 314 pages, $25.

Inside every comic Francine Prose novel is a serious Francine Prose novel struggling to get out. As with the proverbial thin-man-inside-a-fat-man, this dynamic is in no way damaging to the host. There are no signs of fracture, no tears in the seamless skin. Read More

By Wendy Lesser 9/27/99 12:00am

A Rah-Rah Freudian Slips: Talking Cure on Lumpy Couch

Cassandra’s Daughter: A History of Psychoanalysis , by Joseph Schwartz. Viking, 339 pages, $28.95

One can imagine a popular history of psychoanalysis that would be both gripping and informative. But if it actually ranged in time from Freud’s early discoveries up to recent concerns about psychopharmacology, and if it thoroughly covered all the ground Read More