What gets Anaïs up and running? This is the question that is subtly mocked in “Anaïs in Love,” a French romance about a woman’s devious journey towards self-discovery. Like Anaïs herself, the outlines of this journey seem transparently clear at first: she is young, selfish, exceedingly restless, and just needs to get her act together. …
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Among many writers, there is a widespread belief that a desk must be set, an office tidy, an entire house cleaned, before finally sitting down and filling in the blank pages before them. One cannot help but think of such habits—the physical manifestation of routine and discipline—when visiting the fully preserved home of the mid-century …
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Mitchell describes his family as “hippies, returnees to the land.” In the late 1960s, his father, Don, landed a book deal for a semi-autobiographical autobiographical novel called “Putting the Thumbs Up”, which he wrote while still a Swarthmore undergraduate. He sold the movie rights, moved to Los Angeles with his young wife, Cheryl, and wrote …
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