Word: authorly
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James S. Kunen is the author of The Strawberry Statement, a journal...
CHRISTOPHER JOHN FARLEY, author of this week's story on the hottest new music-video directors, was struck by a coincidence while interviewing such artists as Sean ("Puffy") Combs, Missy Elliott and Erykah Badu. "They were all using the same directors," he says. "So I thought, Let's take a look at them." Farley, whose acclaimed novel, My Favorite War, is due out in paperback from Ecco, will soon be starring in a production of his own: his marriage to former TIME correspondent Sharon Epperson, now an on-air reporter for CNBC...
...fits, you must admit. Christopher Darden, Simpson prosecutor, author and sometime TV actor, may have a new job: dad. Miki Gaut has filed a paternity suit against Darden, claiming he's the father of her three-month-old daughter Tiffany. Darden, who cops to a brief "friendship" with the woman, has said if he's the father, he wants primary custody of the child and has filed his own suit to that...
Romance writer Nora Roberts should be flattered that rival author Janet Dailey thought Roberts was so creative and talented that her words were worth copying [PEOPLE, Aug. 11]. In fact, maybe Dailey's plagiarizing of Roberts' phrases and ideas was a worthwhile endeavor. Edgar Allan Poe starts The Fall of the House of Usher with "During the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens..." Tell me, what author could help making that type of writing part of his or her own work? Of course...
...many readers, intriguing book appeared in 1968. Published as a novel, A Fan's Notes excited considerable curiosity about its previously unknown author, Frederick Exley, and its central character, a hopeless drunk and a lunatic rooter for the pro football New York Giants also named Frederick Exley. Who was this guy, so the question went at the time, the accomplished author or the alcoholic burnout he portrays...