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Only the Beginning of the Sharpness “What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.” —Flann O’Brien,  The Third Policeman It’s hard for the master sharpener after all that work to have the shaft taken for the …

… New Jersey Politics and Government: Suburban Politics Comes of Age which former New Jersey governor Thomas H. Kean … Truman wrote to his beloved wife and was selected from 1,268 letters discovered in Bess’ house after her death in … of a Chance: A Memoir , by pianist Peter Duchin, son of Eddie Duchin, America’s prominent society band leader [$16.95 …

… in university English departments, and eventually its audience spread to sophisticated circles outside the academy, … English at Birkbeck College, London, where he taught from 1926 to 1938. For a time, at least, Potter took his job as an … his joke to include areas other than sports, where scoring points through mastery of the symbols of status comes into …

… genres—Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, and Robert Penn Warren come immediately to mind—most fiction writers who also write poems would probably sympathize with Updike’s … The Time Traveler . Although nine book-length studies of Oates’ work have been published to date, not one of …

… The Eloquence of Fact Coming into the Country. By John McPhee. Farrar, Straus & … Seattle and Alaska. He has written children’s books, parodies, poetry, book reviews, political commentary, taglines … “Once More to the Lake”). Essays is based largely on The Points of My Compass, a book that in some respects rivals …