Failed And Forgotten
Mr. Morton knows too much to be taken in by the myth of the New York intellectual. His characters are often writers themselves, but they tend to be failed and forgotten — like Leonard Schiller, the aging novelist in “Starting Out in the Evening” — or helplessly exploitative, like Nora in “A Window Across the River,” who describes herself as an emotional cannibal.
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