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PostSecret creator Frank Warren started his talk on Tuesday with a remark that demonstrated the simple honesty upon which his project is based. “My name’s Frank and I collect secrets,” he said. At an event sponsored by the Harvard Book Store, Warren entertained a packed Brattle Theatre audience with the story of his project and shared some secrets that did not make it into his newest book, “A Lifetime of Secrets.” PostSecret encourages people to anonymously submit postcards containing secrets they have never told anyone...
...think that a lot of times, students look at things in sort of a fresh way and can be sort of immune to the Washington convention,” said Gregory W. Wasserstrom, a regular contributor to Wonkette during the past year. Glenn H. Reynolds, creator of Instapundit and a law professor at the University of Tennessee, also gave his approval to VoteGopher. “From what I can tell, VoteGopher looks like it’s aimed at covering the substantive issues rather than the politics, and that seems like a useful thing,” Reynolds said...
Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, is the patron saint of cubicle dwellers. With his cartoons in 2,000 newspapers and 23 books under his belt, Adams' stature in America's workplaces is indisputable. Here he ventures slightly beyond his cube to write "a diary of my thoughts as I transmogrified from a bachelor to a husband," with more than 150 short essays on everything from aging brains to real estate on the moon, all of them delivered with his usual sardonic verve. This offbeat pundit is welcome news on or off the comics page...
...Holmes' side, of course, was Dr. Watson - trusted friend, occasional accomplice and engaging narrator. Looming even larger, however, was another doctor, one whose medical practice was so slow it allowed him plenty of time to pursue his literary ambition. His name: Arthur Conan Doyle. As the creator of these fictional icons, Conan Doyle has himself become something of a cult figure, the object of countless critical studies, biographies and fan clubs...
...last letters to his mother, who never embraced these beliefs, he wrote: "What does it matter what anyone says of me. I have a good hide by this time." After his death in 1930, all of this would be forgotten and Conan Doyle would be immortalized as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. It was not the legacy he wanted - but in the end, it was not for him to decide...