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...James Geary 2001. This is an edited excerpt from Geary's book The Body Electric, which will be published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the fall
...document involved with her." The documents, he says, will help identify Bakley's enemies and perhaps pinpoint a suspect from the countless scams she worked, including trying to pass hundreds of thousands of dollars in bad checks, claiming affairs with celebs and perpetrating a lonely hearts con game. An excerpt from one of her "Dear single guy" notes: "Honey, please hurry and send me at least $75 or even a plane ticket...If you can't afford this please send me a Christmas gift and a $10 or $20 bill to help me out. I'll send you some nude...
Surrounded by red Radcliffe banners and garbed in gray, Morrison read an excerpt from her biggest success, Beloved (Knopf, 1988). The critics have long noted Morrison’s distinctive literary voice, but her actual reading voice is quite possibly almost as extraordinary: a marvelously flexible, husky voice with a scratch at the back...
Next week time.com will score another coup when it launches an online excerpt of Stephen King's Dreamcatcher, his first full-length novel in three years. Time.com will publish a more than 6,000-word excerpt starting Monday, March 5, with the next installments appearing March 12 and March 19. King himself is no stranger to the Web or to TIME. When he published his novella Riding the Bullet last year, we put him on the cover with the legend Do-It-Yourself.com. It was due in part to that cover that King thought of TIME when he was publishing...
...addition to the online excerpt, you will find an exclusive video of King introducing the book, plus an extensive archive of TIME material on the master of the macabre, as well as an online Stephen King contest that will test your knowledge of all things King. The winners will get inscribed copies of the book. Pop quiz: Name the only movie King wrote and directed. For the answer, go to time.com...