Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader Charles Buowski portraying fate (or death) as

portraying fate (or death) as a hunter constantly in pursuit of pilots

Aldous Huxley and Gertrude Stein

this young family finds tenderness

Kurtis Blow

the trumpeter reconvened the same dynamic quintet that had recorded his label debut The Thing To Do the year before including his Silver bandmates Junior Cook on tenor saxophone and Gene Taylor on bass along with a 24-year-old Chick Corea on piano and 22-year-old Al Foster on drums

Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader Charles Buowski portraying fate (or death) asThe acclaimed author of The Odd Woman and the City celebrates the joys of rereading the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her life. In nine stunning essays, the inimitable Vivian Gornick returns to the books that have shaped her. From a reporter in 1970s New York, to a feminist negotiating love and independence, to a writer in the jubilant sanctity of older age Gornick's life is compelling, and in the characters of literature she finds