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...February, Hyperion plans to publish a book that will make women wince: "Cad: Confessions of a Toxic Bachelor" by Rick Marin, a former senior writer at Newsweek and former reporter for the New York Times Sunday Styles section. According to his publisher, "After a doomed marriage dissolves into divorce, journalist Rick Marin goes from devoted husband to serial dater, and embarks on a sort of rampage, dating and sleeping his way through the ranks of New York's women. Marin's behavior becomes increasingly ungentlemanlike - in fact, he becomes something of a cad. In this finely written, wildly entertaining...
...book revolves around her relationship with the shooter’s family. During her year in Jerusalem, Laura learns that the shooter, Omar Khatib, is still serving time for the attack. She manages to track down his family and, introducing herself to the Khatibs only as Laura, an American journalist covering the Middle East, begins the hugely emotional process of befriending them. She struggles to keep her composure at times, such as when a 12-year-old member of the family laughs about “some Jew” Omar tried to kill. As Laura writes...
Revenge tells a dramatic and personal story, while also providing intelligent and well-written commentary on revenge culture and the Middle East conflict. Blumenfeld’s training as a journalist is evident through its clear and readable prose, and her sense of humor and appealing personality shine through...
...book that draws the reader deep into the author’s mind, something with which Laura is not entirely comfortable—she became a journalist, she explains, because she wanted to write about others. There was, however, no way to avoid the profoundly personal nature of her story and, indeed, that is what makes it great. She recently talked with Bill Clinton, who called to praise the book and mentioned how he related to Laura’s brother’s difficulty with her parents’ divorce. While this public intimacy with her life...
Santos arrived at Harvard in 1991 shortly after being kidnapped and held for eight months by Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. Santos, who had been working as a journalist for Colombia’s largest newspaper, El Tiempo, studied at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow. During that same year, Uribe came to Cambridge to study business administration at the Extension School. The two met and became acquainted at dinners for Colombian students during the six months that their stays overlapped...