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...obtain a dead writer's every last piece of prose and memorabilia - their incunabula. A more learned version of Misery's Annie Wilkes ("I'm your number one fan"), the Incunks speak in part to a writer's fear of having their unfinished, unpolished work stripped from their cold, dead hands (metaphorically, of course) and thrust out into the world...
Perhaps it's a cold truth, but sometimes death burnishes an author's reputation. It was only after she committed suicide that Sylvia Plath's most affecting, well-known works came out, Ariel, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Collected Poems. John Kennedy Toole's Southern gothic tragicomedy A Confederacy of Dunces was unpublished and gathering dust until Toole's mother put it in the hands of Walker Percy years after her son's suicide. The 2008 publication in English of Stieg Larsson's critically acclaimed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo came four years after he passed...
...Just as long as we're going to do it, I can wait. It was a little unsettling, but he never, ever, ever said, "I don't know if I want to be married or not." He never said that one time. So I just assumed he was having cold feet. A lot of men have cold feet...
...Trailing by one, the final seconds ticking down, Bears forward Chris Skrelja fed teammate Garrett Leffellman on the right wing. Leffellman, who had been cold shooting the entire game—going 0-5 behind the arc up until that moment—launched a fade-away three-pointer with a hand in his face. The ball fell through the net, delighting the crowd and sending the Crimson home with a gut-wrenching loss...
...Season. It may be cold in the Northeast now, but Spring is coming and Washington, D.C., will soon hold its annual Cherry Blossom Festival, which celebrates the 3,000 blooming trees that were given to the city in 1912 by the mayor of Tokyo and planted by First Lady Helen Taft. To entice you to visit, the Willard InterContinental hotel - where the first Japanese delegation to the U.S. stayed in 1860, after trade opened between the two countries - has a "Very Cherry" package. Choose your bonus: breakfast for two, a room upgrade or a second room at half-price...