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One Too Many
With The Lay of the Land (Knopf, $27), Richard Ford has finished a Frank Bascombe trilogy, which must be a relief, since by his own modest account...
Esquire, 11/01/06 by Scott Raab · More from publication -
Why Mel Gibson Is Okay by Me
When Bernard Malamud wrote, "If you ever forget you're a Jew, a gentile will remind you," I don't think he had Mel Gibson in mind. But here we are,...
Esquire, 10/01/06 by Scott Raab · More from publication -
Lord of Hosts
Ryan Seacrest, history's greatest monster, has a full plate this morning. The KIIS-FM phone lines are lit, his cohost, Ellen K, has the latest on...
Esquire, 07/01/06 by Scott Raab · More from publication -
Books
THE ANONYMOUS PROTAGONIST of Philip Roth's new novel, Everyman (Houghton Mifflin, $24), is buried as the book opens. He dies three lines from its...
Esquire, 05/01/06 by Scott Raab · More from publication -
The Engineers
THE SPEECHIFYING IS OVER at ground zero. The ceremonies have been held, some more than once. The bagpipers have piped, the silver bells have been...
Esquire, 02/01/06 by Scott Raab · More from publication -
Big Book of the Month
A YEAR BEFORE winning the 1982 Nobel prize, Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez remarked, âUltimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. . . ....
Esquire, 11/01/05 by SCOTT RAAB · More from publication -
The Foundation
ON A WARM, WET COTTONBALL of a June morning, Marc Becker is walking ground zero. Becker's forty-seven, with twenty-six years spent working...
Esquire, 09/01/05 by Scott Raab · More from publication -
What It Feels Like to Be a Putz
What It Feels Like to Stub Your Toe IT'S THE SAME THING every night: I get to bed about midnight and wake up around 3:00 A.M. with a full bladder....
Esquire, 08/01/05 by Scott Raab · More from publication -
Meat of the Month: Pork Butt
I GOT THIS RECIPE from a professor friend, a really Zen guyâalthough my definitions of Zen and recipe may differ from yours. He's half Amish,...
Esquire, 08/01/05 by Scott Raab · More from publication -
EWAN: Me and Obi-Won at the Zoo
I've got a bad feeling about this. For weeks I have girded myself, but the Jedi refuses to show. First he's spotted by a spice miner in L.A.,...
Esquire, 06/01/05 by Scott Raab · More from publication
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