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...ADAMS FAMILY: David McCullough's "John Adams" (Simon & Schuster) is the No. 1 nonfiction book on the New York Times (NYT) list after nine weeks. That's good news for the founding father's wife, Abigail. PW reports that Simon & Schuster will be reissuing "Dearest Friend: The Life of Abigail Adams" by Lynn Withey (1981), which has long been out of print. First Ladies are all the rage in publishing these days: in addition to the books about Edith Wilson (below) and Abigail Adams, Pantheon will be publishing "Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages that Shaped Our Recent History" by Kati Marton...
...turned twenty in a different world from yours, dearest Justin. Late Ike, pre-Camelot. My birthday was the first day of autumn, 1960. John Kennedy was running for President. He was a bright new dime fresh from the mint. That seems like a very long time ago. You round the corner into a world that is in so many ways so much better... and in many ways, terribly worse. But in any case, your...
...Charity, whose thesis was a collection of short stories, this meant searching for inspiration in the precise daily records that her mother and her grandmother had kept since their youths, as well as pillaging the personal lives of her nearest and dearest. “My friends’ lives are fair game,” she grinned, leaning forward and shaking a lock of sun-streaked hair from her face. Meeting weekly with her thesis advisor, novelist Suzanne Berne, Charity said she discovered “how hard it is to write good fiction—even just readable...
...DADDY DEAREST While older moms run a high risk of having babies with birth defects, it has long been assumed that men could have healthy kids at any age. Maybe not. A study finds that dads ages 45 to 49 may be twice as likely as those under 25 to have children who are schizophrenic; 50-plus dads may have triple the risk. Caution: the findings need confirmation. Many similarly unusual links have cropped up before, but none panned...
...possible to spend hours analyzing the personalities of your nearest and dearest, as well as the host of other randoms who land on your list as "friends of friends of friends." A separate function indicates how compatible you are with everyone else on a scale from one to 100; these percentages seem to be completely capricious, but provide for endless entertainment. And when the excitement dies down a bit, there are plenty of other tests to take: the Purity Test, the Sex Test, the Bastard Test, etc. These come in varying degrees of raciness: one part of the Bitch test...