Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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JOHN GRISHAM will redefine the term "celebrity lawyer" this fall, when he returns to the courtroom after a five-year hiatus for writing blockbusters like The Client and The Chamber. The author is taking on the Illinois Central Railroad on behalf of the estate of an employee who was killed while at work. He accepted the case in 1991, just after the publication of his first best seller, The Firm...
...Library of Congress and the "Book of the Month Club" conducted a survey in which they asked people to name the book that most influenced their lives. Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged ranked second only to the Bible. The Fountainhead, by the same author, placed 14th on the list. Yet Harvard is ignoring Rand, clearly one of the most influential American thinkers of this century...
...author of such a claim disarms the audience by suggesting that he can distinguish between a terrorist who kills in the name of Islam and the larger Arab or Muslim community. And yet, at the same time, he confounds his own logic, planting the seed in his audience's imagination for lumping all the people with the funny Middle Eastern names into one great, big and undivided whole. Doubtless, some of his very best friends are Arabs...
...morning I was in the shower, where I am when I get all my good ideas, and I thought well, this world is just so bizarre, it would be a cool book, idea, to just explore. I thought about it, and I called this author I knew, who I'd actually met interviewing for the Crimson. He said, "Well, cool, write up a proposal, and send it to these two publishers" One week, I got a series of calls. Monday, an agent called and said, "I hear you've got a proposal on the table at Little, Brown...
Speakers will include David Rieff, author of Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and The Failure of the West;His Excellency Muhamed Sacirbey, Bosnian ambassador to the United Nations; Stephen Walker, executive director of the American Committee to Save Bosnia; and several representatives of other human rights groups...