BOOKS: The Three Weissmanns of Westport
Miranda, one of the three Weissmann women in Cathleen Schine’s new novel, runs a one-woman literary agency specializing in the memoirs of the woe-is-me crowd. They are a needy bunch requiring lots of attention, and Miranda jokingly refers to them as her “Awful Authors.” Every one “had always overcome something ghastly and lurid, something so ghastly and lurid they had to write a ghastly and lurid book recounting every detail of their mortification and misery.” MORE...
