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Viswanathan shares the copyright for Opal with Alloy Entertainment, a book packager, which develops book ideas, hires writers, then delivers a finished product to publishers. Packagers have been more common in nonfiction--cookbooks, joke books--but Alloy has turned itself into a giant of young-women's fiction. Headed by Leslie Morgenstein, 39, Alloy has put together hit series, including The Clique and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. It's a "fiction factory," as a publishing insider calls it, but one with a well-respected sense of the mercurial girl culture; Alloy's parent company also owns the teen...
...saying something like this to her: “I’ve been so busy lately washing my own workout clothes that I haven’t been able to adopt enough abandoned puppies.” You might also want to throw out a witty, yet sensitive joke; for instance, you can establish your anti-war credentials by commenting that “we can’t hug our children with nuclear arms.” No one wants a guy who is in favor of nuclear...
Rumors abounded last week that Tom Cruise wanted to hoover his newborn’s afterbirth. After our gossip sources ruefully reported the story was a “joke,” FM turned to a Harvard Medical School professor to determine whether Maverick was missing...
Stringent censorship policies against “objectionable” content stunted the Boston arts scene for much of the last two centuries. The phrase “Banned in Boston” became a joke among the cultural elite, who observed that censorship in Boston meant almost guaranteed success in the rest of the country...
...Maoists, it's as if they were monsters," one of Hada's customers snaps. "Now, one of the four of us," he gestures around him, "is a Maoist. Can you guess which one?" Two of the men drinking tea begin chuckling: it's not clear if this is a joke. Hada explains that Bhaktapur, like most of the country, has often been attacked by the Maoist guerillas - but that the locals have learned to live with it. "Maoists are just people like everyone else," Hada says. "Most of them are poor farmers. Now that there's going...