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By Ron Rosenbaum 6/23/03 12:00am

Can Summer at N.Y.U. Turn Jenna Bush Into a New Yorker?

When I read that one of the Bush daughters was going to be spending this summer in the city taking courses at N.Y.U., it made me start thinking about my own first summer in the city, taking courses at N.Y.U. at night, pushing a hand truck in the garment center during the day. I hadn’t Read More

By Nan Goldberg 2/26/01 12:00am

Up Close and Personal; A Death as Fiction, as Fact

Demonology , by Rick Moody. Little, Brown, 306 pages, $24.95.

There is a sense in which reading fiction especially short stories, which by definition must cut quickly to the chase is like eavesdropping. It’s eavesdropping with permission, of course; that’s what the binding means. Nevertheless, most stories represent a conversation the author is having with Read More

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