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Once you decide to retire early, change your life-style to meet your new circumstances. In other words, cut back. This can mean using coupons at the supermarket, eating dinner at home instead of going to a restaurant, and buying some clothes at thrift shops, says Marc Eisenson, co-author of the new financial-management guide Invest in Yourself (John Wiley & Sons; $22.95). This also means cutting back on debt by paying off mortgages, winding down car payments and paying off credit-card bills. "The less debt you have, the more freedom you have," Eisenson says. "You don't have...
PAUL GRAY has spent 24 years at TIME reviewing and writing about such authors as John Updike, John Cheever and Toni Morrison, but he says this week's story on Tom Wolfe was one of his most intimidating endeavors. "I was nervous about interviewing Wolfe because he is a superb interviewer himself," admits Gray. "And then there's the issue of what to wear." Gray put on his best suit to meet the author, whom he found "extraordinarily gracious and extremely well dressed." Gray, who on average reads three books a week, says Wolfe's latest novel...
...writer to have won the prize, joining the ranks of William Butler Yeats (1923), George Bernard Shaw (1925) and Samuel Beckett (1969). He is one of the most popular poets of all time (his collections, particularly North, have outsold nearly all other poetic collections in recent memory) and the author of a collection of 18 books of poetry, prose and drama, some original work, some collaborative, some anthologies...
Patricia Williams, an author and professor of law at Columbia University, spoke last night of media, race and image before a crowd of 150 people in Andover Hall...
Williams, the author of The Alchemy of Race and Rights and On Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race, discussed the recent appearance of Oprah Winfrey on the cover of Vogue to illustrate the difficulties that come from simplifying the identity of black women...