Word: flings
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...audience members at the sold-out event to buy the annually published anthology. “If you bought it, buy another,” King said. “If you bought two, Christmas is coming,” he added. Russell compared writing short stories to a fling and likened novel-writing to marriage. “[Short-story writing] feels like the most natural form to me,” she said. “A novel is like spelunking in the dark,” she added. Audience member Luis D. Urbina...
This is no casual fling. Either in a private or philanthropic capacity, or as part of doing business, American CEOs are now assisting Rwanda on energy, water, a railroad from Tanzania and IT. Scott Ford, the CEO of Alltel, is advising the Minister of Infrastructure, Google is donating software while eBay decided to build an ecolodge. Since March, the hills of Rwanda have been teeming with thousands of bright green "coffee bikes," designed by mountain-bike maker Tom Ritchey with a lengthened frame to carry a sack of coffee. This isn't all about altruism. Illinois-based stock trader...
...gift--or perhaps curse--of transcending genres. His thrillers are romantic, his romances thrilling, and all of them bristle with literary references and big questions about love and life. Consider The Woman in the Fifth. Harry Ricks, an American academic, loses his job and his marriage over a disastrous fling with a student. He flees to Paris and ends up living and working illegally in a squalid corner of the immigrant-filled 10th arrondissement. He meets a beautiful woman, but she will see him only a few hours a week at her apartment in the tidier fifth arrondissement. Then people...
...gift - or perhaps curse - of transcending genres. His thrillers are romantic, his romances thrilling, and all of them bristle with literary references and big questions about love and life. Consider The Woman in the Fifth. Harry Ricks, an American academic, loses his job and his marriage over a disastrous fling with a student. He flees to Paris and ends up living and working illegally in a squalid corner of the immigrant-filled 10th arrondissement. He meets a beautiful woman, but she will see him only a few hours a week at her apartment in the tidier fifth arrondissement. Then people...
...toast to “doing what you want” and then fled as the young set started grinding to Daft Punk and RJD2 (who made an appearance at WHRB this weekend)...in case you thought Third Eye Blind was bad, Yale booked Sister Hazel for their Spring Fling this year. Unfortunately for us, they also booked T.I. and emo heartthrobs the Format. Further proof we all should have gone to Yale...