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by Stuart Mitchner “Fanaticism? No.Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing.” — from “Baseball and Writing” by Marianne Moore Looking ahead to the 2013 baseballseason while browsing through some new and some not so new books, I’m thinking of … Continue reading
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by Stuart Mitchner There are limits to what can be put between the covers of a book. Yet every season, especially at this time of year, publishers outdo themselves. When the stakes are high, and the prevailing mission is to … Continue reading
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by Stuart Mitchner This Halloween Book Scene is not for the faint hearted. No fun and games, no candy and cute costumes. This is about irrational fear of the sort I once felt while navigating the small portion of backyard between … Continue reading
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by Stuart Mitchner It does my heart good to see that Dr Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham is the most popular book with first and second graders in American schools. The doomed dipsomaniac Consul in Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano, a … Continue reading
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by Stuart Mitchner It was the bookmark that caught my eye. The top half was protruding from a volume on the new non-fiction shelves of the Princeton Public Library. Left over from the library’s celebration of National Poetry Month, the … Continue reading
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By Stuart Mitchner In Jazz, Scott DeVeaux and Gary Giddins have produced a book that in the Jamesian sense does the great American art form, sounds it to the depths, gets it all. No wonder, with this combination of talents … Continue reading
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by Leslie Mitchner In the last few years, there has been a spate of publishing by world renowned chefs who, in effect, invite you into their homes for a good meal. The terrain they are covering now includes New Jersey, … Continue reading
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by Stuart Mitchner // photography by Bob Gambee Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman’s introduction to alumnus Robert R. Gambee’s Princeton Impressions (Norton $59.95) begins with reference to this issue’s cover subject, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Her point is that “the three … Continue reading