US EditionThe debut novel by up-and-coming writer Woody Allen
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What about Baum? (Alliance), Woody Allen’s 89-year-old novelist debut, breathes the same air as his films: Manhattan streets, visits to museums, bookstores and the Carlyle Hotel bar, Cole Porter’s songs, the love entanglements, and a neurotic Jewish protagonist. There is also a lack of wink at some episodes of the famous filmmaker’s own biography, whose immense popularity and recognition have given way in the last decade to the pointing and reje…
The debut novel by up-and-coming writer Woody Allen
At one point in his recent interview with Bari Weiss of The Free Press, Woody Allen insisted that his works were, at best, weakly autobiographical. “The characters in my movies, yes, have certain traits and certain obsessions that I have. But in life, they’re within normal bounds, they’re in rational bounds,” Allen told Weiss. “The characters in the movies are hugely exaggerated because I’m trying to make them funny and preposterous, and put th…
Play It Again, Woody
By Bruce Bawer If you’ve seen a lot of Woody Allen’s movies, you’ll feel you’re on very familiar territory if you opt to read his newly published first novel, What’s with Baum? One example: in Hannah and Her Sisters, the Michael Caine character falls in love with his wife’s sister, and Allen ends up married to his ex-wife’s sister; here, we learn that Asher Baum, our protagonist, a not terribly successful middle-aged novelist, married his first …
The filmmaker has had to publish his first novel, "What about Baum?", in a dark conservative editorial in Nashville.
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