AltWeeklies Wire
Passionate Aristocrat: Robert Lowell's Unvarnished Shop Talknew
This is unrevised Lowell, spiky, provocative, with signature strings of adjectives that must have delighted his correspondents.
Boston Phoenix |
William Corbett |
07-08-2005 |
Nonfiction
Memoir Covers the Author's Struggle to Believe and Morenew
David Plante descends from Ernest Hemingway and writes a high American plain style with a personality all its own. In his memoir American Ghosts, he quotes a passage from Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon, and his prose stands up to it.
Boston Phoenix |
William Corbett |
03-22-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: American Ghosts, David Plante
Troubled Master: Willem de Kooning's art and lifenew
De Kooning achieved fame late in a turbulent life dedicated to women, drink, and work, work, work.
Boston Phoenix |
William Corbett |
11-22-2004 |
Nonfiction
