Word: authorly
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After the bloody bombing last week, Israeli author David Grossman published a plea for help in the daily newspaper Ma'ariv: "Israel and the Palestinians are no longer capable of reaching, by themselves, an arrangement that will promise them true peace. They are the captives of their history and psychology and have lost the ability to save themselves from it." Asking Washington to intervene, Grossman wrote, "If somebody in the world still cares about what is going on here, he'd better do something." But even if the Clinton Administration decides to answer that call, it will be harder than...
...William H. Philpott, author of the Biomagnetic Handbook, claims that all injuries generate positive magnetic fields and that administering a negative magnetic field to the affected site will relieve pain and speed healing...
...July 29 and I'm going to see Sarah Ban Breathnach, whose name is pronounced Bon Brannock. She is the author of Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, a 500-page meditation to help women find fulfillment by appreciating what they already have. It has been on the best-seller list for 70 weeks, with 2.2 million copies in print. (A companion journal zoomed onto best-seller lists last month--an astonishing feat for a virtually blank book.) Simple Abundance's entry for this day is "The Home as a Hobby," in which she suggests that cleaning...
Still, few writers get rich from simply writing. Simple Abundance is now a registered trademark, and there are calendars and audiotapes. But merchandising is less offensive when the author gives 10% of her earnings to charity--$250,000 already this year to the House of Ruth, Habitat for Humanity and the Pediatric AIDS Foundation, among others. And whether Journal is a book or not, it became, with Oprah's help, No. 1 on the Wall Street Journal's best-seller list...
Although critics have diverged greatly in their estimations of the literary merit of Burroughs' non-traditional work, the author was an important influence for fellow beats Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, who met Burroughs while he was living in New York in the 1940s...