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...your stories in the book seem almost too hilarious to be true. What's the line you draw between keeping things accurate and exaggerating for humor? There's not a lot of exaggeration in my stories. You learn that lesson the James Frey way. I'm looking through the book right now trying to think if anything was really exaggerated, and it's like, I don't think so. They're all really true. I don't have to exaggerate a lot, because my life is ridiculous...
...going to win? "My expectation is that dollars will follow audience," says UBS media analyst Michael C. Morris. "Content providers can say, 'You're going to pay me, or I'm pulling my signal.' It's basic leverage." Since cable providers operate at margins of about 40%, they can probably afford it. Indeed, Morris thinks a price war is in the offing, which would be good for consumers. "They may decide that a 35% margin is worth the trade-off for a better audience share," he says. Morris believes that the collateral damage in this battle will be the smaller...
...shortcoming in the paper that the journal itself notes: in a British Medical Journal editorial accompanying the paper, Texas A&M University professor Patricia Goodson says that while Lindau and Gavrilova's new SALE measure might someday prove a useful tool for gauging an aging population's medical and public-health needs as they relate to sex, it "sheds no light on the intriguing - and still poorly understood - question of why, even though they enjoy fewer years of sexually active life, many women do not perceive this as a 'problem.' " (See pictures of longevity around the world...
...living in Berlin at the time so my editor flew in and took Middlesex off of my desk and back to America,” Eugenides recounted. “I tend to doubt my work a lot. I’m always reading it through for flow and messing with it again. It’s not the most effective way, but I enjoy writing that way… I wrote ten openings for “Middlesex” before finding the right one. That was eight hundred to a thousand pages in the trash...
...took a year off from college and spent it in Calcutta working with Mother Teresa. I’ve tried to write about it for 20 years and I’m now doing it. I’m having such difficulty. The passage just gets shorter and shorter—maybe it will disappear altogether. It’s just so hard to write about yourself—easier to imagine another life because then everything has equal weight. This is why I don’t trust memoirs—I believe they need fictionalizing to write...