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Allegheny Township filled one of its vacant public safety positions, and will begin to advertise for another one. The supervisors appointed Matt Johnston, 29, of Allegheny Township, as the township’s emergency management coordinator. The board also accepted the resignation of police Chief Duane Fisher, who will become the police chief ....
Le notti bianche (1957) We began this short week with a look at the enthusiastic response to Mark Harris’s Mike Nichols: A Life, and opening this month’s round on new and noteworthy books, we turn to a few more biographies. For a New York Times profile of literary biographer Hermione Lee, widely admired for her books on Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, and Penelope Fitzgerald, Charles McGrath spoke recently with novelist Julian Barnes who recalled the day that playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard approached Lee and asked her if she might consider making him her next subject. When she asked why he’d set his sights on her, he replied, “Because I want it to be read.” When ....