Freudenberger won the PEN/Malamud Award for her story collection, Lucky Girls. She has taught English in Bangkok and New Delhi, and volunteered for humanitarian organizations in Asia. By looking at L.A. through Chinese eyes, she achieves something of the odd, off-balancing effect of Jonathan Franzen's Indians in St. Louis in The Twenty-Seventh City. Although the stranger is a mirror, what we see is still make-believe and copycat. Nevertheless, for all its many interesting pages, The Dissident feels unfinished. It feels, in fact, like two different scaffolds leaning on each other just to stand up.Does anyone know what those last three sentences are supposed to convey?
John Leonard reviews Nell Freudenberger
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Reviewing a website for an activity you don't participate in: good idea or bad idea?
For whatever ridiculous reason, knitting is popular in America, and becoming more so.
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I read USENET so you don't have to
John Burrage reviews Ocean's Eleven.
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two short 'Doctor Who and the Keeper of Traken' questions
There is a major (good) character named Tremas whose identity gets stolen by the Master at the end of the final episode. Does the Master…
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