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...that your interest in poison has been seen as a little scary. Something about your husband moving his cup of coffee away from you? He did. I'm at breakfast talking about a poison and he's edging his cup away from me. When I was working on the book proposal I had all these books about poison stacked around me, and he goes, "You know, if I die of poison, everyone is going to know you did it." Well, thanks a lot, right? (Laughs.) Even now when I go to the office people will say, "Be nice...
...read a lot of this book on the subway and sometimes felt like I had to conceal the cover because I didn't want people to think I was plotting something. (Laughs.) I had the idea for a handbook of poisons in my head from the beginning. Poisoners are fascinating - they are the scariest killers because they are so cold at heart. What they do is premeditated: they plan, they plot and they wait. To me, they are the most amoral of all killers...
Sorensen plans to use the time to work on a book, before returning to her teaching duties in the fall...
...might pressure a freshman to study hard and join 17 extracurricular activities (and 23 more email lists). Certainly, each writer’s most famous accomplishments are worth writing about, but what about the fascinating, lesser known ones? What about Zinn’s plays, Salinger’s book that was made into a movie—"Foolish Heart"—and the novel that Auchincloss wrote while still at Yale...
...afternoon’s most poignant moment came when Alvarez presented Faust with gifts from his tribe—a traditional blanket, a book, and a pin—and praised the University’s efforts to encourage minorities to attend Harvard...