“Everyone in Venice is acting” are the first words of this book, and the opening has the feel or reach of fiction working in what the author insists is nonfiction. “I had been walking along Calle della Mandola,” says the author, “when I ran into Count Marcello.” And just like a wise, sardonic and not Read More
“Everyone in Venice is acting” are the first words of this book, and the opening has the feel or reach of fiction working in what the author insists is nonfiction. “I had been walking along Calle della Mandola,” says the author, “when I ran into Count Marcello.” And just like a wise, sardonic and Read More
Poor Ann Godoff, she can’t win for losing. When the veteran editor was fired as president of Random House last January, she was both hailed and reviled for being tough, for being independent, for spending too much money while at the same time being too “literary.” A quiet period followed, during which Ms. Godoff and Read More
Clint Eastwood’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil , from the screenplay by John Lee Hancock, based on the book by John Berendt, starts out as a screen version of a Town & Country story and ends up somewhere closer to an episode of Perry Mason . The book was an enormous best Read More
