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...This is Rebecca F Kuang’s fifth novel — at 27, she is already a cross-genre literary phenomenon....
...Simon & Schuster, home to authors such as Edith Wharton and F Scott Fitzgerald, is one of the top five publishers in the US, a prized asset in a sector that has shown resilience to the disruption from Amazon...
...As Paramount chief executive Bob Bakish put it: S&S, the publisher of F Scott Fitzgerald and Edith Wharton, is “not video-based” and therefore not needed....
...Ray Charles, Édith Piaf and Grace Jones all performed at Forte’s Capannina club where, local legend goes, the Negroni cocktail was first concocted for Count Negroni....
...Scenes morph and stutter, as memories from childhood do, and a trio of clown-like spirits coax her, mock her and sometimes force her to participate....
...Hope segues to despair with John F Kennedy’s assassination a few months later....
...At Rough Point, her mock-gothic house at the furthest end of Bellevue, she kept two camels called Baby and Princess (since memorialised in topiary), had her morning-room fire so hot it melted her after-dinner...
...“But perhaps by living in a place where ‘capital-F fashion’ doesn’t really exist, I’m allowed to look at clothing with a less trend-driven perspective.” That separation makes a difference....
...Edith Wharton was among the library’s first trustees, while Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein both contributed reviews to the library’s still existent newsletter, Ex Libris....
...A few times, when the novel made use of what we might call Celtic tones in prose, it was only to mock them....
...He says frailty’s name is woman, he mocks a woman’s love and he treats Ophelia terribly. Jumbo finds nuance in the language....
...Wilson’s wife Edith acted as a mediator between the largely immobilised president and his cabinet....
...Garrett follows the media interest in super-luxury bunkers in New Zealand and the Czech Republic and finds little more than PR spin and CGI mock-ups....
...In Edith Wharton’s 1913 novel The Custom of the Country, the social-climbing protagonist Undine Spragg walks into a New York gallery and is intrigued by the sight of a woman wearing an unusual accessory...
...In exhibition mock-ups, her works half-rhyme with the other, older canvases in their midst. A horse’s back, warped and echoed....
...Richardson, a journalist, lives with her husband and four children in a mock-Tudor mansion; Warren, an itinerant artist, rents a nearby duplex with her teenage daughter Pearl....
...“I had a feast,” says Andrés in mock operatic voice. “I had a feast.” But Andrés is not nearly done talking....
...The @projectlincoln Twitter account, now at 1.3m followers, continues to mock and troll the president multiple times a day, hoping to provoke another outburst....
...In Nomad Clan’s apocalyptic Jubilee party, a Gothic-black tableau included charred pork pies and fondant fancies served under a “F*** The Tories” banner....
...Airbus and French aircraft maker Dassault Aviation unveiled a mock-up of their new-generation fighter jet at the Paris air show this week....
...It strikes me that F Scott Fitzgerald is not damning his character’s superficiality so much as winking at the way authors earn their living....
...They built a lavish showroom that featured a full-scale mock-up of one of the units....
...It assembles F-15 and F-35 fighter jets. It builds rockets to deliver supplies to the International Space Station....
...The drive of, like, I may be a f**k-up, but I know I’m good at this one thing.” Pierce, too, felt good at one thing — acting....
...So the other day I called him to see if he had thought about when he might f*** off himself....
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