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'Parallel Play: Growing Up With Undiagnosed Asperger's' by Tim Page
Parallel Play
Growing Up With
Undiagnosed Asperger's
Tim Page
Doubleday: 198 pp., $26
Are we who we are in spite of our afflictions, or because of them?
This question beats at the heart of Tim Page's brief, unadorned memoir, "Parallel Play:...Tags: Asperger Syndrome, Documentary (genre), Music Industry, Entertainment, Gaming
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"United States: Essays, 1952-1992" by Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal the novelist's best character is Gore Vidal the essayist. Beside him even Myra Breckenridge seems a pale creation, and this great fat book, chronicling 40 years of the essayist's adventures, is like a lively picaresque novel in reverse. Its...Tags: Margaret Drabble, Church and State Relations, John Barth, Louis Auchincloss, Gore Vidal
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George I. Masser Sr., 77
Mr. George Irving Masser Sr., 77, of Smithsburg, died Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011, as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
Born May 11, 1934, in Frederick, Md., he was the son of the late Oscar V. and Beulah V. (Blank) Masser Martin. He...Tags: Church and State Relations, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Frederick County (Maryland), Funeral Parlor and Crematorium, Edgewood
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Darko Tresnjak Finds A Home At Hartford Stage
The Hartford CourantDarko Tresnjak wanted to direct as far back as he can remember. When the newly-named artistic director of Hartford Stage was a 7-year-old boy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, he was inspired by the opening-day ceremonies of the 1972 Olympics to organize his...Tags: Titus Andronicus (music group), Opera (genre), Westport Country Playhouse, Climbing, Condos and Houses
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A poison pen
Bloomberg NewsReading "The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal" is like watching a cobra devour forest vermin. Even if you don't have much feeling for the prey, you may pause at the thought of what might happen if the monster turned its attention on you. Not that Vidal...Tags: Herman Wouk, Edmund Wilson, Death, Gore Vidal, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
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Summertime and reading is bold, breezy
If it's summer, it must be time for way too many summer reading lists. Here's mine. Some are new books, some are old. All are books I enjoyed discovering in the past year. 1. "Bel Canto" by Ann Patchett. In an unnamed South American country seeking...Tags: Health, Graham Greene, Books and Magazines, Alice Munro, Family
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