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… Blurring the Worlds of Fiction and Reality David Plante, Becoming a Londoner: A Diary ( New York: Bloomsbury, … tantalizing, as the inner life of a literary figure comes into focus and trips are made behind closed doors. … (1980), and The Country (1982).  In one chapter, Plante reveals how his worlds of fiction and reality were blurred, …

… Business with Hitler. By Douglas Miller. Little, Brown and Company. $1.50. Begin Here. By Dorothy L. Sayers. Harcourt, … be agreeable to attack his clothes, his taste in art, his diet, and his face: but what a waste of time! As a human … he sounds like Mr. Chadband. As for Mr. Edmund Ezra Day, he also is on the side of the angels; but his little book is so …

… poetry—most lumping a book or two into “literature” lists. Also, I’ve read a lot of compelling collections this year and felt like a number have … such a surprise and delight. 6. Claudia Emerson, Figure Studies (LSU) These poems trace the eerie and unpredictable …

… idea seems to be that skepticism is not enough; he may also be implying that we need the kind of faith that carries … If one is going to celebrate the physical world, feces come as no minor part of the territory. Kinnell jumps … in a restaurant in Lyons or Paris as Compote de Pommes des Dieux. In passages like these, the poem comes alive as a …

… pickles. The barbecue was homemade: lean pork cooked over coals, highly seasoned, and sliced. He hadn’t eaten barbecue … “What are old neighbors for if not to take care of somebody come back after 30 years—Law’, so long—at a time like this?” … big rock beside it where those lovers were supposed to have died when their horse ran away and they were thrown from the …