Word: authorly
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...exacerbated the pollination crisis, but the bees' demise has also served to focus attention on the potential of "native" (as opposed to imported) pollinators. "We need to remember that tens of thousands of other species have been out there all along, working shifts around the clock," says Pollinators co-author Nabhan, director of science at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum...
Since then I have always had a different answer to the infamous question: What do you want to be when you grow up? Author of children's books, photographer, chef, hotel manager, management consultant.... Now I just say that I don't know. Because I don't, and I know it. Of course, I can make something up on the spot to see people's reactions, but when I really want to be truthful, I can admit that, after two years of college, I have no idea what I want to be when I grow...
...Friday, author of the best sellers My Secret Garden and My Mother/My Self, has produced a thorough exploration of the meaning of beauty. This is no "guide for girls," but rather a full-out search party seeking to understand how we arrived at a place where "whether we are 5 or 55 the number one predictor of self-esteem is self perception of our physical appearance." In pursuit of her answer, Friday ricochets among personal, sociological and psychological investigation. Ultimately, however, her goal is not so much to undermine the current ruling troika of "looks/beauty/appearance" as to confront the obsession...
...legs eventually straightened out, and sexual esteem blossomed when the author became a Manhattan career gal in the swinging '60s. The challenge became learning the difference between love and sex because, fortunately for Friday, "once my looks arrived the opportunities for both multiplied." She trippingly recounts happy sexcapades she experienced while wearing a foam-green Pucci dress, and genuinely seems to wish that all women would permit themselves similarly satisfying sensations, foam-green Pucci or not. The right to feminine satisfaction can extend well into midlife, as Friday proves by describing her romantic first date with and subsequent marriage...
Indie rock may be hot, but who expected it to attract the most reclusive--and eccentric--of the literary breed? After nearly four decades in hiding, novelist THOMAS PYNCHON has come out as a fan of the band LOTION. The author of Gravity's Rainbow wrote liner notes for the group's latest album, Nobody's Cool, and furthermore, brings them not-to-be-scoffed-at publicity via his interview with the band in the June issue of Esquire. Pynchon first befriended Lotion like any other groupie--by religiously attending the band's shows. (He's had other musical interests...