The practice of city and state governments spending billions of dollars on professional sports stadiums,despite doubtful economic benefits. Salman Rushdie talks about his original novel, Two Years, or Eight Months,and Twenty-Eight Nights. Paul Moses tells the anecdote of how two of America’s largest ethnic groups, the Italians and Irish, and learned to work with each other in the wake of decades of animosity. In Selected Works: A Memoir in Plays,Terrence McNally collects a set of eight plays that he considers the most important of his oeuvre, introducing each play with a personal essay that frames his life in the theater.
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