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...similar kind of determination drove Thakoon Panichgul to study fashion design at night at Fashion Institute of Technology while he worked a day job as an assistant at Harper's Bazaar. And his show on Sunday evening of delicate, multi-layered chiffon dresses in pastel pinks and lemons reminded me of the day three years ago when he rolled a rack of clothing into my office at TIME and announced that he wanted to be a designer. I was surprised to say the least since I knew him only as an aspiring fashion writer at the magazine. "You're crazy...
...OSAMA BIN LADEN really watch MacGyver, rock to Van Halen and lust after WHITNEY HOUSTON? Those are some of the claims made in an autobiography -- published in February but overlooked until Harper's printed excerpts last week by Sudanese born novelist Kola Boof, who says she was bin Laden's mistress in 1996. Boof, who wrote two scripts for Days of Our Lives, says bin Laden called Houston a beautiful woman "brainwashed by American culture and her husband, Bobby Brown, whom Osama talked about having killed." "Nobody in the West," Boof laments, "believes me when I tell...
Though not everybody loves Franzen. After he got labeled a snob in the Oprahgate affair (and Winfrey had moved onto embracing and then birching James Frey--is this a pattern of abuse?), Harper's magazine published a long cover story by the writer Ben Marcus accusing Franzen of betraying the cause of difficult, experimental writing in favor of mere popular storytelling--essentially, of not being enough of a snob. It's like the guy can't win. "I'd done him a number of favors, done nice things for him," Franzen says of Marcus. "My real feeling about...
MOCKINGBIRD: A PORTRAIT OF HARPER LEE CHARLES J. SHIELDS IN 1956 A SHY but viper-tongued young Southerner sneaked into a literary agent's office to drop off a manuscript. "I prayed for a quick death," she said later, "and forgot about it." But the world hasn't forgotten Harper Lee or her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The enigmatic, reclusive Lee, now 80, has never published another book and (like her idol, Jane Austen) has never married. She didn't cooperate with this biography, which relies on early interviews and diligent research, but the glimpses we get are tantalizing...
...movie and its milieu induced a little ache of nostalgia. For a decade or so I solved the Times crossword every day. Then, in 1981, I discovered Sondheim's book of cryptics, and the devious, luxuriant word play had me hooked. Now I search them out in Harper's, The Nation, The Atlantic (where they have been demoted to appearing only online - shame!), Games and the book collections assembled by Newman, Hook and Cox and Rathvon...