MACARONI # 63
Fall 2004
MACARONI # 63 |
Fall 2004 |
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Books
George Steiner:
The polymath George Steiner was born and raised in Austria, spent his high school years in Paris, and much of his adult life in England and America. Sometimes referred to as “the smartest man in the world,” he has written on many subjects, but his far-ranging investigations have been rooted, from the first, in a concern to come to grips with the nature and significance of that age we call “modern.” For Steiner the “modern” begins with the pre-Socratics, however, and ... |
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Larry McMurtry: Larry McMurtry has been a fixture on the American scene for a long time now, and he has experienced several kinds of success along the way. His novels are popular—several of them have been made into films. Lonesome Dove won the Pulitzer Prize, and the accompanying miniseries was wildly successful. He’s become a respected critic of the literature and history of the American West, with articles appearing regularly in the New York Review of Books. And he is probably the only successful used-book scout known to folks who don’t follow that fascinating business closely. Through it all, McMurtry has somehow retained the aura of a fairly nice guy, a down home sort of fella who never lets things go to his head... |
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Evan S. Connell: From the very beginning, Evan S. Connell has viewed the dolorous aspects of modern life with a mordant glee that’s more European than American in temper. His touch has always been humane and light—more Chekovian that Kafkaesque. For example, his depiction of the bourgeois milieu of post-war Kansas City ... |
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