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...Harvey spent nine years as resident fellows in a dorm at Stanford and lived to tell about it in their book Virtual Reality and the College Freshman. "The freshman student often faces an identity crisis during the first semester," they write. "Kids know who they are in their senior year of high school, but a freshman has to reach out and start from scratch." College is a more pressured environment than it used to be, in part because the academic gap between high school and college has increased. Many college freshmen have never had to make independent decisions about...
...beauty business at age 58. Such a life--one that has been copiously documented, by Colette and others--presents Judith Thurman, author of Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette (Knopf; 592 pages; $30), with both an embarrassment of riches and a Sisyphean task. Despite working on this book for nine years, Thurman, who won a National Book Award in 1983 for her biography of Isak Dinesen (and has been nominated again for this book), acknowledges that Colette remains an elusive figure, an author who hid herself in plain sight...
Insert your own knowing, literate reference to Susan Faludi's book Stiffed right here...
DIED. NATHALIE SARRAUTE, 99, experimental novelist whose book Tropisms (1939) jump-started the Roman Nouveau move ment; in Cherence, France. She ignored traditional approaches to plot and character, focusing on fleeting human reactions she called "movements...on the border of our consciousness...
...being left behind." So say experts Peggy and Peter Post, the third generation of writers in the Emily Post family to tackle the topic of civilized behavior. Their forebear's fierce belief in the importance of good manners is passed on faithfully in the duo's helpful new book The Etiquette Advantage in Business: Personal Skills for Professional Success (HarperCollins...