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...change the fact that, over the past five years, Mattel's domestic sales of Barbie-related products have fallen by an average of 12% annually, according to estimates from investment-banking firm Needham & Co. At age 50, Barbie is clearly in need of a midlife makeover. Says M.G. Lord, author of Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll: "What kids want is a toy that shocks, and that toy is no longer Barbie...
Writers aren't famous for getting up early, but Daniyal Mueenuddin, author of the debut story collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (Norton; 247 pages), keeps farmers' hours. Literally. "I crawl out of bed about 6 and have some tea," he says, "and immediately I meet my managers"--that is, the managers of his small farm in rural Pakistan. "Then they go off and do their thing, and I write until 2." The rest of the afternoon he spends either out on the land or going through the finances. "I tend to soft-play the accounts and spend more time...
...workplace pioneer, Handler found the corporate road difficult. "It was not a glass ceiling in those days," she later reflected. "It was concrete." Yet, as author Gerber says, "Ruth's maverick spirit fueled her drive and her risk-taking in the early years of Mattel." The dream went sour for Handler, though. First, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Then, at 62, she became a convicted felon after filing false financial reports. She was forced out of her company because of the scandal. Still, by the end of her life in 2002, she was celebrated by a new generation...
Running, running, with BlackBerry, cell phone and laptop in hand, members of America's professional class are in a perpetual race with time. "There is a palpable sense out there that many of us have lost control of our lives," says the author, a prominent sociologist at New York University. Conley is a master chronicler of our attention-challenged age, tallying up the social and personal costs of always striving to be somewhere else. He is admirably frank about his own frenetic life: "It's all enough to drive one bonkers," he admits. "That rocking chair in my grandparents' house...
Mitchell Stephens, an author and professor of journalism at New York University, and Michael Traugott, a professor of communication studies at the University of Michigan, will also serve as fellows...