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Carrie Fisher is an anomaly in Hollywood: a demonstrably clever celebrity. (I say demonstrably because plenty of celebrities are extremely clever; they just tend to keep it to themselves.) Fisher is the author of four novels, several screenplays and two autobiographical one-woman shows. Now she's written a memoir, or rather adapted it from her show of the same name, Wishful Drinking (Simon & Schuster; 163 pages...
...back, we're probably off to a good start.' ALEC GREVEN, the 9-year-old author of How to Talk to Girls, dispensing dating advice...
...York Times op-ed this weekend, Suketu Mehta, the author of an award-winning chronicle about life in Mumbai, wrote that he was already booking plane flights to his childhood city. He was going to have a drink at Leopold Café, which has reopened for business. It was his way of fighting back...
...think 10a really teaches you how the works of English transformed and progressed over time,” said Silver, also a concentrator. “Without knowing where an author is coming from, your ability to appreciate and understand the work isn’t as fulfilling...
...want to use it as a conversation starter. To ask if this is the case, what can we then do?” The panel was equally divided along this nature-nurture line. Both biology professor David A. Haig and anthropology professor Richard W. Wrangham—the author of “Demonic Males”—primarily cited nature as the source of male violence. Though Wrangham stressed that its being natural should not be an excuse. “I tend to agree on the feminist line that every man is a potential rapist because...