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CONVICTED. JONATHAN SCHMITZ, 26, talk-show guest who killed Scott Amedure after Amedure revealed during taping (never aired) of the Jenny Jones Show that he had a crush on Schmitz; of second-degree murder; in Pontiac, Michigan. Schmitz was not told his "secret admirer" would...
...have a very merry Christmas indeed. Not only is the tale of a tuxedo retailer who's taught a parenting lesson by his dying landlady available in a fancy gold-boxed edition, but it has also spawned dozens of look-alikes and reprints. A Stranger for Christmas, The Special Guest, Certain Poor Shepherds, Christmas in My Heart and others all have the theme, not to mention the prayer-book size, of A Christmas Box. But, thankfully, some offer more reading pleasure. Julie Salamon's The Christmas Tree is touching without being preachy, and Maeve Binchy's This Year It Will...
Since 1915 Houghton Mifflin has published a yearly collection of The Best American Short Stories, an anthology of short fiction published in magazines across the United States and Canada in the previous year. For each volume, one of the nation's most distinguished novelists is chosen to be the guest editor (recent past editors include Richard Ford, Louise Erdrich, and Jane Smiley). The editor is blindly presented with 120 stories, chosen by the series editor, Katrina Kenison. Blind presentation means that the authors names are concealed up until publication of the selection. This year's guest editor John Edgar Wideman...
...visitor is led through splendid rooms of marble and teak, thick carpets and crystal chandeliers. This is the Diwan--seat of power in the oil sheikdom of Qatar--and the guest arrives at the inner sanctum to find hushed courtiers awaiting the moment His Highness, the Emir, will favor the chamber with his presence...
Good thing for the young revelers at the HAND parties that Mansfield was not on their guest list...