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He was once thrown out of a London gambling club for complaining at the top of his voice about the disgusting Jews who were spoiling the place. When his seventeen-year-old daughter Tessa accused him, accurately, of having an affair with Felicity Crosland, the family friend for whom he would later leave Neal, he berated her for being \u201ca nosy little bitch.\u201d He was forever bashing out bitter letters to his publishers and his agents, complaining about perceived slights to his authorial dignity. When he finally threatened to leave Knopf, his editor Robert Gottlieb was only too happy to show him the door. \u201cLet me reverse your threat,\u201d he wrote to Dahl. \u201cUnless you start acting civilly to us, there is no possibility of our agreeing to publish you. Nor will I\u2014or any of us\u2014answer any future letter that we consider to be as rude as those we\u2019ve been receiving.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014<strong>David Wallace-Wells<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Eug\u00e8ne Guillevic called his charming 1967 book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Geometries-Lost-Literature-Guillevic\/dp\/1933254726\/\">Euclidiennes<\/a><\/em>, a \u201csomewhat peculiar bestiary.\u201d Each short poem is a caption or ekphrasis for a geometrical figure: line, ellipse, cylinder, spiral. Some figures are apostrophized, others speak in their own voice, and the result is as witty as anything in La Fonatine. Here is \u201cTangent\u201d (you remember, a straight line that touches a curvaceous line at just one point), expertly \u201cEnglished\u201d by Richard Sieburth in the recently released <em>Geometries<\/em>: \u201cI will only touch you once. \/ And it will only be in passing. \/\/ No use calling me back, \/ No use reminding. \/\/ You will have plenty of time \/ To rehearse and remember \/ This moment, \/\/ To convince yourself \/ We\u2019ll never part.\u201d \u2014<strong>Robyn Creswell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I got an early copy of the third volume of CF\u2019s phenomenally good <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pictureboxinc.com\/products\/431-powr-mastrs-3\">Powr Mastrs<\/a><\/em> and read it immediately. CF\u2019s art is more fluid here than in the earlier books, and the latter pages are downright stunning as a result. Though the fantasy-based narrative of the previous books continues, the focus in this volume frequently shifts to repetitions: mesmerizing multipage sequences of a gridded room; subtle transmutations of intricately rendered machinery. Deliberate, minimal action hasn&#8217;t been this exciting since Tarkovsky. \u2014<strong>Nicole Rudick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before Wes Anderson made beautiful, wonderful films, he wrote fiction. Indulge in reading \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/utanalecta.tumblr.com\/post\/1307378249\/analecta-exclusive-wes-andersons-undergraduate\">The Ballad of Reading Milton<\/a>,\u201d a short story of Anderson\u2019s that was published in 1989 by his university\u2019s literary journal, <em>Analecta<\/em>. It\u2019s charming but also not very good (sorry!); then again, the short stories I wrote in college weren\u2019t much better\u2014a comforting fact considering Anderson\u2019s creative success. \u2014<strong>Thessaly La Force<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After eyeing Wells Tower\u2019s collection <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Everything-Ravaged-Burned-Stories\/dp\/0312429290\/\">Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned<\/a><\/em> for twenty minutes at McNally Jackson Books, I finally grabbed it and approached one of the sellers. \u201cI have no money,\u201d I explained, aware that this is something of a nonstarter at retail stores. Still, he was kind enough to give me ten percent off on the grounds that my (perfectly good) copy \u201clooked a bit shopworn.\u201d I\u2019m so glad he did. Towers has a knack for infusing outlandish scenarios with heartache, as in his last tale, about a thuggish Viking who begins to question the marauding life. \u2014<strong>Kate Waldman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I feel obliged by patriotism and love of sport to at least mention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/sport\/2010\/1019\/1224281442413.html\">the news<\/a> in <em>The Irish Times<\/em> of the retirement of the much-decorated hurling legend Se\u00e1n \u00d3g \u00d3 hAilp\u00edn. Over the course of his illustrious eleven-year senior career, \u00d3 hAilp\u00edn claimed six provincial medals, three All Ireland Championship medals, one League medal, and three All-Star awards. I am duty bound to tip my hat to the half-Fijian, half-Corkonian stalwart, an icon of the game of hurling\u2014the world&#8217;s fastest field sport\u2014and a consummate athlete who seemed single-handedly to raise the amateur Gaelic sport to quasiprofessional standards. Up the Rebel. \u2014<strong>Brenda Collins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is the iPad the new Flash for magazines? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeldman.com\/2010\/10\/17\/ipad-as-the-new-flash\/\">Jeffrey Zeldman thinks so<\/a>: \u201cMasturbatory novelty is not a business strategy.\u201d \u2014<strong>T. L.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Zo\u00eb Heller&#8217;s savvy essay on Roald Dahl presents the enduring master of children&#8217;s fiction (somewhat less enduring, though still somewhat masterly, in his writing for adults) as a perfect misanthrope: At dinner parties, Dahl\u2019s potent gifts of vituperation regularly sent fellow guests home early. 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