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...pretty full-on,” said Eve. “We get up really early in the morning, and we do the radio shows, whatever city we’re in. And then we do some TV, we do some stuff like this, and then we go, get on a plane and fly to the next city. We’ll go to a screening, do a Q&A, and then we have about three and a half, four hours off to sleep and start again...
...corners. It is easy to see how a younger writer, more enamored of punch and cleverness, might sigh at a passage like the following from “Under the Cloth;” “They cross the George Washington Bridge to New Jersey and go north on the Palisades Parkway to Rockefeller Lookout in Englewood Cliffs.” The cacophony of place names does nothing to move the essay along, and it might be argued that such attention to detail crosses the line into self-indulgence. However, this trademark specificity is what gives these pieces their...
...back when she was in first grade,” said Reed’s jumping coach of 11 years Cindy Joy. “She was a very good athlete from the beginning, but I had no idea how successful she would go...
...Christine has always been extremely disciplined,” Joy emphasizes. “She’s never been one to cheat anybody out of giving them her full effort. That’s what made letting her go so hard...
...every biblical book that opens with God commanding his prophet to go marry a prostitute. But this is exactly what the prophet Hosea is told to do at the outset of his biblical career. “The Lord said to Hosea: ‘Go get yourself a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom; for the land will stray from the following of the Lord.’” Few readers of this story have ever taken it literally, especially given that in the ensuing fourteen chapters of the book, Hosea’s problematic marriage...