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...clubs flourish, and Disney has reportedly dusted off plans for a movie based on Arthur Dent's interstellar wanderings. But as M.J. Simpson notes in his minutely detailed Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams (Hodder & Stoughton; 393 pages), the man commonly credited with inventing the genre of humorous science fiction was a tragic figure with a chaotic personal life and a pan-galactic case of writer's block. "I love deadlines," Adams once said. "I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." Adams learned to avoid reality around age 5, when his parents divorced. Tall...
Although Davidson says she always knew she wanted to write historical fiction, her interest really began in the summer of 1993 when she had been doing some research on 18th century literature at Widener...
...this is reality, give me my other books! Call me a sucker for escapist fiction, if you will. I take refuge in reading; I’m Matilda; I’m the baby who loves a bunch of authors. I eat a leisurely meal while leafing through Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White, and my blockmates sigh in envy, perpetually mourning the death of pleasure reading in college and wistfully nostalgic about the good old days when reading for fun wasn’t something fueled by the Improbability Drive of The Hitchhiker?...
...reading, even I’m not planning to devote my life to that: Not only would it be ridiculous, it’s also useless in the practical sense. Who would pay me a six-figure salary to let me work my way with relish through piles of fiction? Isn’t the purpose of my time at Harvard to obtain a profession that’ll let me retire at 50 and sunbathe on my yacht with a drink in one hand and a book in the other...
...through skirts from Japan: fad or fiction? Last month, an Australian newspaper reported that skirts with thongs painted on the derriere are the latest fashion craze to hit the streets of Tokyo. Subsequently, according to major international newspapers, photos of Japanese women supposedly sporting the risqué garments were circulated widely in an e-mail that claimed, “What you see below are skirts made to look as if the panties are visible—they are the current rage in Japan...