These are some of the novel's most creative passages, and parents of young children will relish Donoghue's account, in Jack's voice, of the games, books, activities, jokes and mealtimes; the endless repetition, the fun and the tedium, but in Jack and Ma's case with no respite at all.
He added a twist of new journalism to his music, with the essence of the Harlem Renaissance residing in his creative passages.
While the book always remains cheerful, it was sadly just a little disappointing, because in a way she shoots herself in the foot by choosing to include these creative passages.
The book's overriding theme might have been not Brooklyn but the passage of creative strivers from struggle to midlife prosperity.
So for this interview -- on the occasion of a role that deals with creative celebrity and the passage of time -- Ms. Linney, who is 40, volunteered to take a walk around Juilliard, her old stomping ground, to test the distance she had traveled in the intervening years.
If you're not feeling too creative, simply copy a passage out of a book or newspaper.
You may be rejected at first it's almost a rite of passage for creative types but if you continue to send out good poetry, they will get to know you, and you will start to see your work published.
The book effectively employs any number of familiar McSweeney-esque devices (or tics, depending on your point of view), including catchy section headings; short, impressionistic passages; and creative typesetting.
Lethem, the author of "Motherless Brooklyn" and "The Fortress of Solitude," shares passages in his creative life.
The pair married the following year and went on to cement their creative partnership on The Big Sleep, Dark Passage and Key Largo, a run of success that made them the glamorous first couple of the American film noir.
