New York, March 7th, 2005
BOOKS Meet the Prose In A Changed Man, Francine Prose unloads on do-gooder hypocrisy and a media with blinders on. A CHANGED MAN FRANCINE PROSE. HARPERCOLLINS. 432 PAGES. $24.95. LEANING OVER A lacquered, painted oak table, the prolific essayist and novelist Francine Prose is hawking a book of dirty poems-not her own, but a collection of her friend Charles Simic's doggerel illustrated with raunchy drawings by her husband, Howie Michels (who built the table, too). "I didn't think they were so dirty," she says of the book, titled Aunt Lettuce, I Want to Peek Under Your Skirt. "I thought, Oh...
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