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Entries by David Finkle from 10/2009

Mavis Gallant: Underrated Short Story Master Proves Herself Again

| Posted 10.06.2009 | Books
Read More: Short Stories, Expatriates in Paris, Literary Fiction, The New Yorker, Mavis Gallant, The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories, Green Sky, A Fairly Good Time, The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant, Canadian Authors, Random House, Alfred Dreyfus, Green Water, The New York Review of Books Publishing, Books News

Since none of the fiction lovers to whom I mention Mavis Gallant has more than the vaguest notion who she is -- this, despite her being singled out fo...

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Peter Gelb and His Met: No Booing Please

| Posted 10.07.2009 | Entertainment
Read More: Renee Fleming, General Manager Peter Gelb, The Metropolitan Opera, Daniele Gatti, Arthur and Barbara Gelb, John Doyle, The Barber of Seville, Peter Grimes, Luc Bondy, Bartlett Sher, Tosca, Mary Zimmerman, Eugene O'Neill, Opera, Natalie Dessay, Franco Zeffirelli, Booing, La Sonnambula, Aida, Armida, Entertainment News

What occurs to me about the booing is that it might begin to color attitudes towards the Met under Peter Gelb for whom this 2009-10 season is the first with no vestigial ties to Joseph Volpe.

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Video Books, or Vooks: Do We Need to Watch Books as Well as Read Them?

| Posted 10.14.2009 | Books
Read More: William Makepeace Thackeray, Vooks, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell, Piers Plowman, Reading, Truman Capote, Video Books, William Langland, George Eliot, Vivien Leigh, Henry James, Audrey Hepburn, Anthony Trollope, Books News

It would be a sin -- practically a capital crime -- to write off masterpieces because no one has the patience for the sentences Marcel Proust had the patience to craft so scrupulously.

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Johnny Mercer, Lyricist-Composer-Singer, at 100

| Posted 10.23.2009 | Books
Read More: Capitol Records, John Herndon Mercer, Eric Davis, Robert Kimball, Barry Day, The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer, Miles Kreuger, The Days of Wine and Roses, Bing Crosby, Moon River, Judy Garland, Books News

Among other accomplishments you can find in The Complete Lyrics, Mercer is one of the most evocative writers about the American South who's ever put pen to paper.

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Come to the Cabaret Two by Two

| Posted 10.26.2009 | New York
Read More: Hendricks & Ross, Martin Pizzarelli, Bucky Pizzarelli, Norman Gimbel, Brian Koonin, Irving Berlin, Larry Fuller, Stephen Schwartz, John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey, Antoine Silverman, Tony Tedesco, Adam Guettel, Mary Ann McSweeney, Ted Sperling, Goodman and Jane Ace, Charles Fox, Cafe Carlyle, The Vicki & Ted Show, George Harrison, Stephen Sondheim, Cloudburst, Fred Allen and Portland Hoffa, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Victoria Clark, Lambert, New York News

The best thing for light NYC entertainment with a hint of shadow is to storm the Café Carlyle where the John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey have a show called "Lost and Found."

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