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Frank Donovan, a lifetime close friend and a lawyer from Detroit. He was known among his friends and clients as a brilliant legal analyst with a nonaggressive temperament. No litigator. When we were both twenty, I remember him saying: "When there's a fight, I pick up my hat and go home." He had a large head, somewhat out of proportion to
... See moreJohn McDonald • A Ghost's Memoir: The Making of Alfred P. Sloan's My Years with General Motors (The MIT Press)
It was probably just as well. The man was Max Ernst, not merely an artist whose work Joe admired but a committed anti-fascist, public enemy of the Nazis, and fellow exile.
Michael Chabon • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
(Curiously, one reason why Wilder was himself disappointed with the way this film turned out was that he originally wanted Armbruster Sr.'s longterm affair to have been with a male hotel bellhop, until studio executives dissuaded him.)
Jonathan Rosenbaum • Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition
The Man Who Cheated Himself.
Robert Polito • Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber: A Library of America Special Publication
Two women, Caroline Ullring and Karen Clark, reveal their traumatic experiences of sexual assault by the same tennis coach, Lew Gerrard, highlighting issues of silence, trauma, and shared survival in the sports community.
LinkFlorida drew the transient and rootless on the eternal promise of a second chance, with more than its share of scammers and con men. So who was to say the guy living next door wasn’t one of them? A subdivision like Carriage Pointe was Jane Jacobs’s vision of hell.