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...Particularly sad—and particularly difficult for Pollitt to write—was an essay on her mother and her father. For Pollitt, forcing people to realize that she has a sometimes-difficult inner life has proved to be the most interesting aspect of this book??s publication. Despite her status as a well-known feminist, Pollitt refrained from conveying a message about the current state of feminism through the book. “Learning to Drive,” she says, is about sharing her life experience openly. “We think that because...
...fictional and fanciful” anecdotes. “The book is like a Facebook number from the Harvard Lampoon,” said Lushing, a former member of the semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. The book??s main chapter categorizes Facebook users into one of five stereotypes. Among them are “newsers,” who use Facebook as a liveblog to document their most trivial actions; “self-promoters,” who exaggerate their features to make them appear more...
...Penn forges a story in “Into the Wild” that takes “The Graduate,” slams it into “Siddhartha,” and rolls it all down Jack Kerouac’s road. When you start a Krakauer book??whether it be the Everest adventure “Into Thin Air” or Mormon tragedy “Under the Banner of Heaven”—you realize that you are about to embark upon an inspiring yet excruciating true-life journey that plays...
...affixed to books? Copyright doesn’t protect the “sweat of the brow” involved in compiling facts, either: “[C]opyright rewards originality, not effort.” Nor does it give monopoly control of minimally expressive statements (for example, a book??s price) that “merge” with the underlying idea (for example, its market value). A federal appeals court recently denied the New York Mercantile Exchange’s bid to protect its list of stock prices, saying that “the market...
...detail itself that feels flat. Unpredictability becomes expected, and unexpected depth becomes predictable. Some of the book??s deepest and potentially most moving revelations get lost in the cavalcade of surprises, turning the lack of cliché into a cliché in and of itself. She changes directions so many times that occasionally it's difficult to remember which...