sentences:  I presented my wife with a copy of the latter two days before our wedding, and, having only recently begun reading it, she has been sharing with me selected passages, where the author's contemptuous wit has iridesced with particular brilliance.”
  
  Theroux’s work has appeared "Esquire", "The London Magazine", "Antaeus", "The New York Times", "Harper’s Magazine", "The Massachusetts Review", "Art & Antiques", "Mississippi Review", "Review of Contemporary Fiction", "Chicago Tribune", and "San Diego Reader".His poems have appeared in "The Yale Review", "The Paris Review", "Poetry East", "Conjunctions", "Graham House Review", "The San Diego Reader", "Exquisite Corpse", "Denver Quarterly", "The Literary Quarterly", "Urbanus Magazine", "Boulevard", "The Michigan Quarterly Review", "Rain Taxi", "Review of Contemporary Fiction", "Image", "Helicoptero", "Seneca Review", "The Recorder", "The Journal of the American Irish Historical Society", "3rd Bed", "Fence", "Anomaly", "Subdrive", "Sahara Sahara", "Nantucket Magazine", "Gobshite Quarterly", "Gargoyle Magazine", "Italian-American", "Bomb", "Provincetown Arts", "Green Mountains Review", and "The Hopkins Review".In 1995, "The New York Times" reported that one of its readers had noted the similarity of six passages in Theroux's 1994 survey of "The Primary Colors" with a 1954 book "Song of the Sky" (by Guy Murchie).