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...marvel the weight of trouble a family can buoy you through. I like her best when she admits, "I would come home from the office some days and want to smash the laptop over his head," rather than read his manuscript over Indian food, as she often did, carefully excising references to herself. But I admire that she honored the "for worse" part of her vows instead of running to Oprah when the world came crashing down around her. She turned down all television offers. "I didn't owe anyone an explanation of who I am." She's barreled through...
...came Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale. Settling in on the best-seller list for 43 weeks, her tale about four middle-class black women proved there was an audience for commercial fiction by black authors and sent publishers scrambling to find the next black blockbuster. Mosley's second manuscript, Devil in a Blue Dress, a continuation of the story he'd begun in Gone Fishin' and featuring the same hero, Easy Rawlins, was scooped up in the rush. The book received rave reviews when it appeared in 1990 and sold so well that Mosley never had to return...
...these elaborate Bibles circulated in Europe (mostly among the landed elite, since a single copy cost more than a peasant's lifetime earnings), they spread more than the word of God--they also set, in their rudimentary way, new technological standards. Georgetown professor Martin Irvine calls this manuscript culture "the first information age." He explains that "it was the first time a whole civilization configured around a standard technology for recording and distributing information...
Even for a duke of cyberspace like Bill Gates, the price seemed steep. In 1994 he paid the estate of oil baron Armand Hammer $30.8 million for one of Leonardo da Vinci's lesser notebooks. Compared with the Renaissance master's other surviving manuscripts, Codex Leicester (named for the English family that owned it for two centuries) is trifling, just 18 sheets of linen paper folded in half to produce 72 pages. It contains only modest samples of Leonardo's celebrated draftsmanship--no spectacular drawings of flying machines, no cutaways of the human anatomy or exploded views of geared gadgetry...
...American Museum of Natural History, Leonardo's precious sheets are beautifully displayed in climate-controlled glass cases, illuminated only intermittently to protect the ancient ink and paper, while skilled docents use working models to repeat Leonardo's experiments. At nearby computer terminals, museumgoers view digitized images of the manuscript close up, reading English translations alongside Leonardo's Italian, zeroing in on specific drawings and flipping back and forth between the master's idiosyncratic mirror-image writing and ordinary script. (The left-handed Leonardo wrote backward for comfort--not, as myth has it, for protection against prying eyes...