I loved Harris's earlier book but I just can't get into this one. There's a bit too much derring-do-love. It's so full of research that there's no room for character. At page 114, where I've abandoned ship, I am still wondering who William Wyler and George Stevens kind of are, and having read Lil...
in the morning, and I am disgusted. It is a very cold winter night out, and I have got a fire in the fireplace. I begun this book last October, and it is now January, and I doubt that I am halfway through. I will give 1 word of advice to any sap with the itch to write a bo...
on a Wednesday morning when the call come. I was slow answering it, thinking first of a comical thing to say, though I suppose it long since stopped handing anybody a laugh except me. I don’t know. I laugh at a lot of things nobody ever laughs at except her. “Do not be funny,” she said. “Just ans...
His latest film, an all-star adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter’s novel Ship of Fools, was due to open on July 29, and Kramer could already recognize the onset of the sickening deflation of his own expectations. How could it have been otherwise when, by his own admission, he “had dreamed it woul...