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...Paris, two children, a job as a manuscript editor at Radio Liberty. Then in 1997, a British e-publisher, Online Originals, snapped up her fourth novel, The Glass Palace Chronicle. Her next e-book, The Angels of Russia, was chosen one of the five finalists for Britain's prestigious Booker prize in 1998 - to the shock and consternation of the country's staid literary establishment. A print version soon followed. As befits an interview with an e-publishing star, TIME chatted with le Roy via e-mail about her experience...
...leadership of black America. That struggle began in slavery, when the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass emerged as the first unquestioned spokesman for the African-American agenda. Over the decades, the battle to inherit Douglass's mantle sparked epic struggles, such as the early 20th century clash between the accommodationist Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, the militant founder of the N.A.A.C.P. The most recent chapter played out in the early 1970s, when Jackson himself displaced Martin Luther King Jr.'s closest confidant, Ralph David Abernathy, putting himself on course to become what many blacks wryly call the HNIC--Head...
...Director Booker T. Mattison, whose film, The Gilded Six Bits , was screened on Saturday afternoon, encouraged student artists to pursue their visions...
North is north and south is south in this 19th century sea story that contended for Britain's prestigious Booker Prize last year and came out in a U.S. paperback edition last month. The novel follows the voyage of the Sincerity, a smuggling vessel that takes on a party of highbrow landlubbers bound for the island of Tasmania. One of them, the Reverend Geoffrey Wilson, believes that the Garden of Eden is located on the island and seeks to prove this as part of a great effort to debunk modern scientific theories of geology and evolution. Also on board...
...thus that I discovered a relentless campaign to bring us the ultimate dating show, "Who Wants to Date a Hooters Girl?", and a frenzied effort to sell Andrew Dice Clay (remember him?) transported back in time to ancient Rome to be the talent booker for "Colosseum...