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...offered advice to housewives in her 1942 book How to Cook a Wolf. But she herself was not the average housewife; an issue of Look magazine from that same year featured her "growing grapes on her ranch, discussing a script with a well-known actor, and revising a manuscript in a negligee with a glass of sherry in hand." Yet while Fisher was certainly refined in her tastes, she was also the palate's propagandist, urging her readers to savor buttered toast as she would sherry...
Mandela's is "a classic, archetypally heroic story involving great suffering and great achievement," says Stengel. "It shows the value of sticking to one's beliefs." Stengel and the President embarked on 18 months of writing and editing in January 1993, starting with a manuscript Mandela had begun years earlier in his prison cell. They set to work each day at 6:45 a.m., usually meeting at Mandela's African National Congress office in downtown Johannesburg or his suburban home. On his own, Stengel tracked down and interviewed more than 50 of Mandela's friends, colleagues and family members, including...
Commissioned by the Philharmonic, the symphony was completed in "short- score" forma piano score, with some instrumental indicationsin the fall of 1992, two months before Albert's death. Composer Sebastian Currier deciphered the manuscript and added missing dynamics. A smaller, more compact work than RiverRun, the three-movement, 20-minute symphony, as conducted by Hugh Wolff, attests to Albert's command of the post-Romantic idiom. A soaring arch, it consists of two slow movements framing a biting central scherzo, and it is full of Albert's trademark evocations of musical forebears. It opens, for example, with a motive...
When one of his roommates read the manuscript, he read it straight through in a three-hour sitting and laughed the whole time. Since then, his roommates have called him "Stibu," the name used by Wardell's Japanese family...
...shorter stores (such as "My Manuscript," a tale narrated by a vicious teenage boy who screams at his housekeeper and has sex with men in the bathroom at JC Penny's in order to research his work-in-progress, and "the Last You'll Hear From Me," a suicide note written by a girl who tries to disparage her exboyfriend's sexual equipment from beyond the grave--"It's the size of my little finger...I'm not wanting the nail, just the finger!") made me think America should resuscitate the great tradition of reading pamphlets, so that every citizen...