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| | | | | Ian Johnson's August 2024 New Yorker interview with Gao Ertai -- A Chinese Memoirist's Exile in Las Vegas inspired me to look him up. I found Yu Jie's Radio Free Asia 2022 article about Gao Ertai -- Gao Ertai: Living Happily in the Desolate Desert ??????????????????? translated blelow. Yu Jie mentioned Gao's 2007 "Letter Without... | |
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| | | | | When Babe Cushing, the most captivating of "the fabulous Cushing sisters," married CBS chairman Bill Paley, her glamour and his power made them the golden couple-in New York society there was nothing beyond the Paleys. But Babe became her husband's most precious possession, slavishly fulfilling his whims while her family disintegrated around her. And her aura of perfection-for three decades she was the ideal and envy of all her peers-belied a deepening pain and resentment. SALLY BEDELL SMITH, in this excerpt from her new biography of William S. Paley,In All His Glory, records the high price of being Babe | |
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| | | It's that time of year again... here are my favourite books I read in 2024. I usually read more non-fiction these days and 2024 was an excellent year for memoirs. My Family: The Memoir by David Baddiel is a pretty much perfect blend of comedy and empathy about his dysfunctional parents. Knife by Salman Rushdie... | ||