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...Notes, Bibliography and Acknowledgements attest. The result is a thorough account of the last 19 years of Elvis' life, in which the lithe, rebellious rocker who snarled "Hound Dog" while swiveling his hips turned into a pill-popping, sickly wreck. Although the reader may not exactly agree with the author's assessment that there is "no sadder story," the tale contained within Careless Love is certainly a tragedy, of "the price that is paid for dreams" and their fulfillment beyond any person's expectations. The only problem with this book is that although it is meant for the general reader...
Hardly what one would expect someone to be saying to Arthur Golden '78, the celebrated author of Memoirs of A Geisha, the novel that just out in paperback after spending 60 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller List. When Golden incredulously asked his editor what had prompted such an epithet to come from her lips, she responded, "Well, you're walking through a hotel lobby talking on your cell phone about your movie deal...
Sexual harassment and First Amendment rights charged the discussion at the Harvard Law School (HLS) Forum last night with the appearance of Harvey A. Silverglate '67, author of The Shadow University, a book condemning speech codes enacted by American universities...
Elmore Leonard, king of the crime novel and author of Get Shorty and Out of Sight, has taken a break from his fast-paced, book-a-year writing schedule to do a little touring. But he's not following the typical writer's schedule of interviews, coffee-shop readings and book-signing sessions. No, Leonard's really on tour this winter, traveling and performing with a band from Greenfield, Mass., called the Stone Coyotes. Boston's Lansdowne Street Music Hall hosted the bizarre book-reading/band performance on Friday, February 19. Two days earlier Leonard and his back-up graced...
Leave lunchtime free today for a lecture by Hazel Rowley at the Barker Center called "The First Best Selling Black American Author: Richard Wright and the Book of the Month Club." 12 Quincy St. 485-4113 12 p.m. FREE...