Word: journalists
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Such mistakes have taken their toll through the departure of some once-loyal customers, particularly those with an eye for the latest trends. Tara Feinstein, 35, a free-lance journalist, recently browsed the aisles of a Nordstrom store in Woodland Hills, California, shopping for clothes for her three-year-old son. She walked out with two $20 T shirts and a sense of disappointment. "I remember being very excited when Nordstrom came to Southern California in the 1980s, and I shopped there exclusively," she recalls. "Now, when I think of Nordstrom, I picture brown and drab...
...stroke that paralyzed Jean-Dominique Bauby was cruelly premature, at least death had the courtesy to wait until the 45-year-old French journalist finished his last assignment. Less than 72 hours after readers and critics alike hailed as a triumph his memoir of living with locked-in syndrome--a state of virtually total paralysis that leaves the victim, in Bauby's words, "like a mind in a jar"--the former editor in chief of French Elle magazine died. Bauby's book Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (The Bubble and the Butterfly) is a celebration of life written...
...career journalist whose wit, flair and savoir vivre became personal trademarks, Bauby saw his fast-paced life come to an abrupt end on Dec. 8, 1995, with the stroke that left him paralyzed. Though Bauby was dependent on hospital staff and machinery for all his bodily functions, his brain remained unscathed. He soon discovered that the only muscle still under his control was his left eyelid. By telegraphing a series of blinks, Bauby let his nurses know that his mind was alive and well inside its immobile frame. They responded by reciting a special alphabet to him with the understanding...
Clark was quick to establish his background. He currently lives in Seattle with his wife Carrie and his first son. He first encountered the writing life as a journalist with a specialty in food and travel. His penchant for history, however, soon took over, and he wrote two nonfiction books: James Beard: A Biography and River of the West. Since publishing In the Deep Midwinter, Clark has finished another book with the working title Mr. White's Confusion and is researching for his next project, a memoir and genealogy of his family...
...Clark's practices as a writer stem from his experiences as a journalist. He writes quickly: In the Deep Midwinter was finished in four months--incidentally in the deep of summer 1995. "I think if you've been writing as a journalist or whatever, one of the things that happens is that you learn to write under any circumstances--when the whole world comes crashing down on you. It gets progressively easier to write, say, 1,000 words a day," he says. The transition from nonfiction to fiction was not awkward for Clark. "There is not a great distinction between...