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...smooth, seductive rap, unfolding in much the same way in book after book. The Daughters of Joy is no exception. Unlike Chopra's previous novel Soulmate, which dwelt at length on specifically Eastern ideas like karma and reincarnation, Daughters focuses on a figure long popular in Western myth and legend, and among contemporary New Agers as well: the Wise Woman. Its slim plot revolves around Jess Conover, a young reporter at a Boston newspaper. Confused, adrift and emotionally anemic, Jess stumbles, seemingly by chance, on a classified ad in a newspaper: "Love has found you. Tell no one. Just come...
...rare vibrancy, creativity, and intelligence, if not a record that rejuvenates hip-hop from the underground to the Top-40, from the street corner to the dance floor. An album with longevity. Q-Tip is familiar with the great hip-hop album. Within the genre, the man is a legend. As a member of much-beloved A Tribe Called Quest, Q-Tip contributed to albums like “The Low End Theory” and “Midnight Marauders”—full of loping bass lines, crisp percussion, clever rhymes, and a whole...
...singers who reunite to perform at a memorial concert for their former group leader. The film opens with a hilarious montage of the group’s earlier years when they were known as “Marcus Hooks and the Real Deal.” When Hooks (John Legend) decides to go solo, the two back-up singers—Floyd Henderson (Mac) and Louis Hinds (Samuel L. Jackson)—pursue a career as “The Real Deal.” They ultimately fail due to poor record sales and the duo?...
...Silicon Valley legend is a familiar one: A few guys tooling around in a garage come up with a killer app. The innovators become entrepreneurs with the help of venture capital and launch their product to immediate acclaim. Their company goes public, and they're all instant zillionaires. Whoa, cautions Kawasaki, a Valley legend himself. It ain't that easy. "Flailing, grinding, thrashing, and getting lucky are why companies succeed," he says. And why entrepreneurial wannabes...
Even the least literary among the Harvard set are likely to be familiar with the wildly successful novel-turned-phenomenon “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.” Few, however, know as much about the man behind the legend, Gregory Maguire. When the fantasy-fiction author made a pit stop at the Harvard Book Store to chat about his new venture into Oz, “A Lion Among Men,” FM took the opportunity to sit down and chat about the perks and pitfalls of writing...