Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going back into space. NASA confirmed Friday that Glenn has been accepted to fly aboard the Space Shuttle this October as a payload specialist."I'm ready for another adventure into the unknown," said Glenn. "It's extraordinary," says Jeffrey Kluger, TIME's space writer and author of Lost Moon. "He's the grand old man of the space program...
...clear-eyed sketch of lower-middle-class Irish-American life, in a dozen paragraphs of bar conversation. "He had the sweetest nature," says a cousin. "He found a way to like everyone, he really did...He could always get you laughing." Another voice: "God, wasn't he funny?" The author interpolates: "Not missing the irony of the drinks in their hands and the drink that had killed him, but redeeming, perhaps, the pleasure of a drink or two, on a sad, wet afternoon, in the company of old friends, from the miserable thing that a drink had become...
...Author's previous credits include The Lives and Loves of New Kids on the Block...
...Does the author of Hortense Be Thy Name give up? No. He plows on. But he is beginning to envision the meeting he'll have with his editor when the book is finally ready for submission, in about the year...
...author knows that he has a jacket-photo problem that is beyond help from spa cuisine. Dejected, he slinks from the editor's office. The editor immediately goes into a meeting, and the first book discussed is a literary novel by Al Gore. After Gore's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination petered out, mainly because of some problems that had started in 1997, he had turned to writing...