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...look much better up close in Rodge Glass' Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography, which variously paints him as garrulous, self-centered and a "bloody devious old bastard" to boot. That's probably not the picture Gray had in mind when he agreed to let Glass, his factotum and former student, be his biographer and shouted, "Be my Boswell ... Tell the world of my genius...
Glamorous as these homes are, they constitute considerably less than conspicuous consumption for a man of Simon's income. And he lives in them about as modestly as circumstances permit. He has a secretary-factotum on each coast and some domestic help. But he dresses simply, entertains infrequently and does not spend his life being waited on: he often answers his own telephone, greets people at the door, takes their coats and fetches their drinks. He husbands his money for his family, and has grown more cautious over the years. He invested the first $75,000 from Come Blow Your...
After earning his degree—he was a goverment concentrator—Davis worked as a private IT consultant and then returned to Harvard in 2000 to assume his current position as technological factotum...
...President in 1990 on an official visit to Brazil, where he translated for Putin. He hasn't left Putin's side since. "I liked Sechin," Putin wrote in his 2000 memoir. "When I moved to Moscow, he asked to go along. I took him." He served as Putin's factotum in the Kremlin in 1997, and in the Federal Security Service (FSB) as Putin became its director in 1998. When Putin became acting President, he named Sechin deputy chief of staff. "Sechin is not just Putin's sounding board," says the cabinet official. "Sechin is part of his brain cells...
...Derf's skill as cartoonist and storyteller make "Trashed" and "My Friend Dahmer" two of the most entertaining autobiographical comix I have ever read. By far the more enjoyable read, "Trashed" rivals Charles Bukowski's novel, "Factotum" for minimum-wage comedy. "Dahmer," on the other hand, has its own sort of disgusting verisimilitude. It turns out that Jeffrey Dahmer once got paid to "act" spastic in a middle-American shopping mall, and did it for two hours to the utter obliviousness of the authorities. You couldn't make this stuff...