Word: authorly
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...author Alice Lichtenstein goes along with his conclusion somewhat reluctantly. "I hate to see the emphasis taken away from food," she says, adding that the benefits of a high dosage of vitamin E are not yet proved. She and other colleagues point out that food, unlike pills and extracts, contains trace elements that may have benefits not yet recognized. What they fear is encouraging the habit of chasing a handful of pills with a Slurpee and a bag of popcorn and calling it a well-rounded meal. Russell and Lichtenstein are not fighting, but their emphases are a little different...
LEAST GRACEFUL EXIT Anna Quindlen, journalist and author, who canceled her scheduled appearance at Villanova University amid protests from pro-life groups
Like Stone, I drafted my own press release, which read: "Joel Stein, author of such columns as Why I Should Be Man of the Century, Antichrist Like Me, Why I Hate Dogs and Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, is buying a bunch of guns to turn over to the police. And though it's going to upset his accountant, he's not even going to claim them as a charitable gift. That's what kind...
Zhang Xiaobo is co-author of China Can Say No, a 1996 book of essays warning of a U.S.-led plot to contain China
...author of the stunning Regeneration trilogy clearly has still more to say about World War I. Geordie, 101, on his deathbed, is haunted by visions of the trenches and the death of his brother. His grandson Nick, who is nursing him, is struggling instead with one of the modern age's versions of warfare, a cobbled together, dysfunctional family. Nick moves between his grandfather's past and his own unsettled present wondering about survival. But Barker's faith in the power of redemption lets her, and the reader, down: the hasty if elegiac conclusion promises a peace that...