Creative Works
Rubin on Kaylie Jones Memoir
WASHINGTON TIMES Sunday, September 27, 2009 LIES MY MOTHER NEVER TOLD ME By Kaylie Jones Morrow, $25.99, 372 pages, illus. REVIEWED BY MARTIN RUBIN All the time that I was spellbound reading this searing, brutally honest memoir, I kept thinking that Kaylie Jones was the perfect proof---and…
September 29, 2009
Paul Angiolillo Sculpture Exhibit in Weston, MA
Paul Angiolillo invites us to an exhibit of his work during the month of October. The opening reception is on October 1: Sculptures in Wood by Paul Angiolillo An exhibit in the Weston Library, 87 School St., Weston MA October 1 through 31, 2009 reception: Thursday, October 1, 5:30-7:30…
September 15, 2009
Rubin on ‘The Lessons of War’
WASHINGTON TIMES. Monday, September 7th, 2009. By Martin Rubin THE LESSONS OF WAR: THE EXPERIENCES OF SEVEN FUTURE LEADERS IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR By William van der Kloot The History Press/Trafalgar Square/IPG Books, $34.95, 240 pages Reviewed by Martin Rubin . . . [I]n this unusual book, William…
September 9, 2009
Rubin Review: ‘Past Imperfect’ by Julian Fellowes (Writer of the Screenplay for ‘Gosford Park’)
Society Meets the Sixties The aristos flock to a party. The brownies are spiked with hashish. By Martin Rubin Wall Street Journal August 30, 2009 Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes; St. Martin's, 410 pages, $24.99 Anyone who has seen "Gosford Park" (2001) knows that Julian Fellowes, the movie's…
August 30, 2009
Martin Rubin on ‘To Heaven by Water’
Martin Rubin reviews Justin Cartwright's novel To Heaven by Water: Quest in the fog: A recently widowed former British TV news anchor frantically searches for meaning in this novel that knows its setting. By Martin Rubin L.A. Times, August 21, 2009 Justin Cartwright was born in South Africa in…
August 25, 2009
Shelley Fisher Fishkin Reading in NYC Oct. 8
In NYC on October 8, Shelley Fisher Fishkin will be reading from one of her newest Mark Twain books, and she's delighted to welcome classmates and friends to this free event in Lower Manhattan. Shelley writes: On Thursday, October 8, the evening before the Class of '71's celebration of the 40th…
August 25, 2009
Rubin on ‘A Day in the Life’
Magical mystery tour and morality tale By Martin Rubin | The Washington Times, Sunday, May 31, 2009 A DAY IN THE LIFE: ONE FAMILY, THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, & THE END OF THE '60's By Robert Greenfield Da Capo Press, $24.95, 338 pages, illus. REVIEWED BY MARTIN RUBIN Oh, London in the Sixties, that…
June 1, 2009
Rubin Review: Victoria and Albert
Victoria and Albert, Allies in Love By Martin Rubin, Wall Street Journal, May 16, 2009 We Two By Gillian Gill Ballantine, 460 pages, $35 Queen Victoria (1819-1901) is known to Americans perhaps more than any other British monarch in part because her name characterizes an ethos or outlook that…
May 16, 2009
Rubin on Waugh’s ‘House of Wittgenstein’
THE HOUSE OF WITTGENSTEIN: A FAMILY AT WAR By Alexander Waugh Doubleday, $28.95, 333 pages, illus. Reviewed by Martin Rubin, Washington Times, May 4, 2009 In "The House of Wittgenstein," Mr. Waugh has, indeed, taken on a tribe about as different from his own as you might find. . . . And if all…
May 8, 2009
Rubin on ‘Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing’
BOOKS: 'It should have been Isaac' WASHINGTON TIMES | Friday, April 24, 2009 FAME, OBLIVION, AND THE FURIES OF WRITING By Steven J. Zipperstein Yale University Press, $27.50, 288 pages, illus. Reviewed by Martin Rubin . . . "And so we come to Isaac Rosenfeld, who was unlucky enough to suffer the…
April 26, 2009