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THE EDGE OF SADNESS
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Shop Indie Bookstores The Edge of Sadness, Edwin O’Connor, Little Brown and Company, 1961, 460 pp The bestseller list for 1961 had a good share of long books and this one, at #8, seemed longer than its pages. I have now finished reading the top 10 bestsellers for that year. Edwin O’Connor wrote in t …
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So many queens of denial
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When I was young, I sometimes I felt delusional. When I would speak up about what I saw quite clearly: abuse, alcoholism, theft, cons, controlling behavior, inappropriately sexual or competitive behavior — my parents called me ‘utterly insane.’ And if you think about it, as far as the colloquial und …
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Times Armond Piece Is Curious Head-Scratcher
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Like everyone else, I thought the Armond White foot-shooting incident (the City Arts critic allegedly calling 12 years A Slave director Steve McQueen an “embarassing doorman” and a “garbageman” at a 1.6 New York Film Critics Circle awards ceremony, and getting expelled by the NYFCC on 1.13 as a resu …
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