Is there a woman alive who can resist the charms of Glenn Loury? The answer, at least in Loury’s telling, is no. For the past 60 years, according to his new memoir Late Admissions, Loury has been seducing colleagues, students, strangers in bars, and wives of friends, almost all while he is a married father. Why is he telling readers all this? Other reviewers have wondered. Friends advised him against it. He says he wanted to tell the truth about everything or we wouldn’t believe him about anything.
If nothing else, readers will come to see him as a man of voracious appetites. And once we understand his seemingly uncontrollable desires for sex (and drugs), we will also begin to see clearly his intellectual hunger and promiscuity. At one point, one of his teenage sons asks him why he can’t just stay put, why he insisted on taking a job in Providence when his family lived in Boston. “Where are you? You’re missing in action….
