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Complex characters and their interactions have always been at the heart of the author??s work. However, a decade ago, the spotlight was firmly fixed on Virginia chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta and her small circle of friends. Cornwell, in the first person, relayed Scarpetta’s fascinating observations and judgments. Cornwell gave us the world through the eyes of a smart, powerful woman chafing against the profoundly masculine and often misogynistic law enforcement culture...
...profit Public Library of Science (PLoS), scientists will be able to publish their papers online for a fee after only nominal editing by the journal’s editors. The review process would take place online and post-publication. Only in this case, anyone, not just the author??s scientific peers, would be able to post comments and reviews. In theory, such a system would transform the scientific community into true “marketplace of ideas,” in which scientific results would be vetted democratically, instead of by a group of cloistered elites. Readers would...
According to a grumbling few, Marisha Pessl’s tangled debut novel “Special Topics in Calamity Physics” does not deserve to be published. Certain critics and blogsters credit the unusually pretty author??and her jacket photo—for capturing publisher Viking’s attention...
...York Times noted in August, the book is the latest controversy in a growing literary conspiracy in which powerhouse companies like Viking use an author??s pedigree rather than their talent as their principle publishing criterion. Resist the urge to make another Opal Mehta joke...
...well-wishers showed up to fill the pews of Memorial Church and listened to an array of speakers as well-known as Galbraith himself share their memories of the former Paul M. Warburg professor of economics emeritus. After a welcome by incoming Harvard President Derek C. Bok, the prolific author??s son James K. Galbraith ’74 spoke first, calling his father “my mentor, my coach, my critic, and my friend.” Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who spoke towards the end of the service, also touched on Galbraith?...