Word: bookers
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...sink, fire place and stacks of wood. I run my hands over the walls to be sure the mischievous late afternoon sun hasn’t camouflaged a light switch, but no luck. The cabin lies on a small man-made lake filled with fish bred by the owner, Booker, a German man who immigrated in the ’60s and has held onto a heavy accent and a smoky cackle. (Do a lot of backpackers come through here? “No, mostly city couples foh dirty veekends. Heh heh heh heh!”) He says...
Despite his earlier troubles, Kushner's friends were stunned by last week's lurid charges. "I have only seen the righteous side of this man, the side that gives an enormous amount to charitable causes," says former Newark city council member Cory Booker, who accepted $15,000 from Kushner in his unsuccessful bid to become Newark mayor in 2002. Booker says he sat shivah with Kushner recently after the death of his mother Rae, a Holocaust survivor. Booker saw only a grieving son, not the venal plotter who would mail motel-room porn to his sister...
Coetzee is the first person who has been awarded the distinguished Booker prize twice, but did not publicly receive the award either time. He also did not grant reporters a customary news conference following the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm...
...completely different dystopia —the sexual nightmare that was reading-list favorite, the 1985 The Handmaid’s Tale. Oryx and Crake is somewhat of a return to her roots after a series of well-received realist novels, including Cat’s Eye and the Booker Prize-winning The Blind Assassin...
...DIED. F. BOOKER NOE II, 74, former master distiller of Jim Beam bourbon; after a long illness; in Bardstown, Ky. A grandson of Jim Beam, who ran the family company from 1892 until 1944, Noe worked for almost 50 years at the distillery and in 1988 created Booker's Bourbon, an undiluted, unfiltered small-batch whiskey that helped establish a new market for bourbon, which had been left behind by the growing popularity of vodka...