Word: authorly
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...talk-show hosts and the self-loving blather of the chattering classes, is the confessional mode of speech a vice? "The need to unburden was a selfish need" goes a line in the English author Nicola Barker's new novel, Wide Open, and ultimately the novel addresses the question of the line between the need for revelation and the desire for indulgence. Even as characters are drawn out of their shells, nothing is ever fully 'wide open...
Gates, a best-selling author and director of Harvard's W.E.B Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, "is one of the nation's leading black intellectuals," Turner said. One of his current projects is the completion of Encarta Africana, an encyclopedia of black culture and history that will be published in CD-ROM form in mid-January and in book form next September...
...author of the Early Childhood Act, Kerry focused extensively on the need to help young children in America, citing a barrage of statistics...
...hole at the middle of her existence: the unexplained disappearance of her mother when Dena was just 15. As the narrative shifts in time and place to unravel the mystery, the action is as shamelessly unsubtle as the characters are cliched. That said, this third novel from the author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is utterly irresistible. Its plot is so fast paced, readers may not even notice its weaknesses...
DIED. CLEVELAND AMORY, 81, best-selling author and animal lover extraordinaire who fought for the rights of underdogs the world over; in New York City. Amory chronicled his most famous rescue--of his pet cat Polar Bear--in The Cat Who Came for Christmas. But he was also well versed in the habits of two-legged creatures, penning a sardonic series on society's upper crust...