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...Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence launched the "house book" craze in 1989, and his contribution is acknowledged with an excerpt, along with a chapter from Frances Maye's Under the Tuscan Sun and many other tales of yuppies "slumming it" in old, country homes. While the storytelling is evocative, the collection's focus on writers complaining about the impossibility of finding a decent plumber in their quaint hamlet starts to grate. TIME Asia's editor Karl Taro Greenfeld offers an antidote with his claustrophobic account of a college semester spent in a Parisian loft, gambling his monthly allowance...
Accounting for the origin of the third-person narrative of Norman Mailer in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Armies of the Night, Mailer recalls the unconscious memory of a chapter of The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams. Its imitation in Mailer’s own work was, in some sense, “spooky...
Powell, we sometimes forget, is a phenomenon, a chapter from tomorrow's history books walking right in front of us. It isn't just the unique resume that demands respect; it's also the presence and the personality--the unforced authenticity and effortless sense of command while he refers to himself as just "an old Army trooper"--that stills and fills a room. Ordinary Americans know that. "There's nobody better to represent us," said Sanford Licht, 72, in Sherman Oaks, Calif. "A military guy, a minority guy. He epitomizes what goes on in America." And Powell's colleagues...
Thus, the book includes an advice chapter which consists of ten guidelines for early applicants to assess their chances. The books also includes a “technical appendix” which uses the data gathered for the book to create an “admissions calculator...
That audience includes college admissions professionals. In the final chapter, the authors assess the likelihood of various changes in the early admissions system...