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These are unusually public days for Caroline Kennedy. As a member of the famous political clan that is seen by many as the closest thing Americans have to royalty, she has spent most of her life enduring media scrutiny. But the 44-year-old daughter of President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline has always sought a more private existence. She followed in her father's footsteps and attended Harvard but eschewed the family tradition of politics. She earned a law degree from Columbia University and - though she has never practiced law - co-authored two well-received books...
...still walk into Starbucks without turning heads, and unlike a certain teen star with similar pull, she won't be caught prancing around with a snake on her shoulders. Skinning it with a flint knife would be more her style: Auel is the author of the Neolithic saga The Clan of the Cave Bear and its four sequels...
...years I wasn't going to get much further." Then the notion of writing a story about a young woman in the Ice Age popped into her head. Auel wrote like a woman possessed, working all night and wearing out a string of typewriters. She rewrote The Clan of the Cave Bear four times before she was satisfied and then sold...
...heart of Hari Kunzru's engaging debut novel The Impressionist (Penguin; 481 pages), which explores what it is to be Indian, English and all that lies between. The boy who would will himself into becoming Jonathan Bridgeman was born Pran Nath, spoiled heir to a wealthy Hindu clan in WW I-era British India. He is celebrated for his royal paleness?until he is revealed to be the half-breed bastard of a British officer. Teenage Pran is promptly tossed from his house and launched on a journey to the ragged ends of a dying empire in search...
...magazine’s end, looking for some sign that at least a few ‘normal models’ remained, but found none; everyone in the pages of Glamour, regardless of what ethnicity they pretended to represent, was some version of the metallic she-bot clan. The color palate that had been too small to include the likes of me had now shrunk even farther: for summer it’s bronze or it’s stay at home...