Marc Weingarten

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Millard Kaufman’s Life and His Bowl of Cherries

Millard Kaufman is wary of the attention his debut novel, Bowl of Cherries, might receive. “I don’t want people to think this is the work of some 90-year-old freak,” he says in a voice that’s strong and sturdy. The fact that Kaufman — a screenwriter from Hollywood’s studio-system era who......
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Search for Satori

Bill Morgan’s I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg takes us back to an era when poets received couch time on network talk shows and tutored rock stars on the finer points of Blake’s work. Well, at least Ginsberg did these things, which made him a cultural......