I wrote a first page of a first chapter.... Writer tells about meeting Yvette Pierpaoli, in 1974 or so, in the house of a German diplomat in the besieged city of Phnom Penh... War, as she was the first to admit, turned her on.
His last chapter, "A Writer's Faith," quotes the concluding words of the Centurion's Prayer on its final page: et sanabitur anima mea, "and my soul will be healed".
In the first chapter of writer Brad Gooch's new book Smash Cut, a vivid and searing memoir of gay bohemian life in New York City in the '70s and '80s, he visits the apartment of his soon-to-be lover, film director Howard Brookner.
Would Kuhn read a draft of his Ebola chapter? the writer asked.
A chapter on writers is filled with delights.
Each corrective chapter, the writer-friend pointed out, began with something like: Well, it didn't happen exactly that way..
Brief, pointed chapters tackle the subject from various historical and social perspectives — a chapter on writers and privacy feels especially urgent — drawing on Supreme Court cases, literature, and personal experience.
Between chapters, the writer, with a gallows humor, inserts his own devastating memories of a family wiped out by the Holocaust.
Brief, pointed chapters tackle the subject from various historical and social perspectives a chapter on writers and privacy feels especially urgent drawing on Supreme Court cases, literature, and personal experience.
Echoing Lawrence's attack on the "spirit", the "soul" and the "mind" in his terrific third chapter on writer-critics, he reflects powerfully on Thomas De Quincey's remark: "The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted: and yet the great majority trust to nothing else".
The Norwegian chapter of writers' rights organization PEN International is suing its own government in an attempt to make it safe for Edward Snowden to accept in person the prestigious Ossietzky Prize — without fear of extradition to the United States.
