Dariush Mehrjui, the director who helped lead a new filmmaking movement in his native Iran with films like 1969’s The Cow, was found stabbed to death this weekend alongside his wife, Vahideh Mohammadifar, in their home near Tehran. That comes from Variety, which says the news was first reported by Iran’s state media organization IRNA, which had said that the couple was found by their daughter with stab wounds in their necks. The killer has not been identified, but IRNA said that someone had rece
Bibliofiles: Nourishment for a book-loving soul
Finding safe haven at Half Moon Books in Kingston
Donna Liquori
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Owner Jessica DuPont stands by the window of her used bookstore in Kingston, Half Moon Books.Donna Liquori
The owner of Half Moon Books, Jessica DuPont, a friend and fellow school mom, let me work at a small desk in the basement of her Kingston shop during this odd school year. She handed me a key and the bookstore became my safe haven.
I would drop my daughter off at Hudson Valley Sudbury School near Woodstock, drive to Kingston and let myself in before the bookstore opened. Downstairs, I’d walk through a maze of banker’s boxes filled with books for online purchase and write at a desk, surrounded by even more boxes of books. Some needed repair, including a tiny damaged “Pictures from Italy” by Charles Dickens.
Literary Critics Praise Unpublished Salinger Novels As Good, But Not ‘Go Out And Shoot A Celebrity’ Good
HANOVER, NH Touting the manuscripts as close to the author’s best work, literary critics at Dartmouth College hailed several unpublished J.D. Salinger novels Wednesday as good, but not “go out and shoot a celebrity” good. “Don’t get us wrong, there’s the same wry prose and pitch-perfect characterization of uniquely American individuals that made Salinger into a household name, but if we’re being totally honest, nobody’s going to go out and blow someone’s brain out over these,” said professor Sheila Heidt, noting that the as-yet-unseen works were a “B, maybe a B+” that likely wouldn’t inspire psychotic individuals to do more than hit a celebrity a few times with a tire iron. “Unfortunately, would-be assassins will likely find that the novel’s tendency towards the maudlin and a muddled narrative fail to evoke the passion required to take down a sin
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