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Someone with the pen name Christina Kallilli, who describes herself as a high school sophomore from Boston, wrote this breathless fiction, and she wants the world to read it. Well, a certain kind of world, anyway: fellow members of a literary subculture that exploded online in recent years and is especially flourishing at www.fanfiction.net Just in the past 18 months or so, FFN, which launched in late 1998, has attracted tens of thousands of teenagers who like to read and write fan fiction--stories based on celebrities (such as JC from boy band 'N Sync) or popular characters from literature...
...Process of the Next Papal Election" (Image/Doubleday; paperback; June 18) by John Allen Jr. explores that question. Says Kirkus, "An oddity, an instant book dedicated to an event that has yet to happen...Allen?s roster of candidates and their qualifications will be the strong selling point of ?Conclave.? Breathless though the prose is, it conveys much that is of use including, for instance, a thorough discussion of just what the job of pope entails (settling squabbles and travelling a lot) and how popes get elected in the first place. For Vatican watchers, a good reference to have on hand...
...Kuumba Singers, I would have a lot of nickels. If you’ve ever been to a Kuumba performance, you know that there is just something about the Negro spiritual—something indescribably moving, inescapably enticing, and unbelievably powerful—that leaves the room breathless. But Negro spirituals have been thrilling singers and audiences alike long before the Kuumba Singers first made them a staple on Harvard’s campus...
...each second of the pair's recent existence has been indelibly pressed into Olympic lore. Thanks to breathless press coverage, we have even learned how they take their coffee (he likes a latte, she, a latte with vanilla syrup). Less known is the back story of how they found each other and made it to Salt Lake City. It begins a continent and several worlds away. Sale grew up in the western province of Alberta, strapped on her first pair of skates before her second birthday and at age 8 announced to her mother that she was Olympic material; Pelletier...
...wrong: a pair of Canadian figure skaters had been cheated out of a gold medal by dicey judging. In other words, no one had died--a huge relief. But try telling that to my Canadian mother-in-law. She called every hour for the rest of the evening, breathless with news of scandal and skulduggery. The unfairness! The horror! Her outrage was infectious. When I sat down to watch the Olympics the next night, I felt excitable too and strangely absorbed--not only by the skating controversy but by the Games in general. I was hooked. In a way that...