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...Coetzee 10. Trouble with Poetry Billy Collins Hardcover Nonfiction 1. Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2. Team of Rivals Doris Kearns-Goodwin 3. Education of a Coach David Halberstam 4. The Lost Painting Jonathan Harr 5. The Bedside Book of Birds Graeme Gibson 6. Teacher Man Frank McCourt 7. Little History of the World E.H. Gombrich 8. The Truth (with Jokes) Al Franken 9. Great War for Civilization Robert Fisk 10. Postwar Jonathan Kozol
...OUTLOOK With the loss of 2004 Patriot League Offensive Player of the Year Joe McCourt, the run-oriented Leopards might have trouble moving the ball this season. The defense, anchored by Buchanan Award hopeful Bennett, should be particularly stingy, but shouldn’t be relied upon to post goose eggs all year. While Lehigh appears to be the class of the league, if Lafayette can get past Colgate at home, the Leopards should be primed for a title bout against the Mountain Hawks on Nov. 19. Lafayette won’t be able to top Lehigh...
...received 47 phone messages. A secretary calls security to find out if the building needs to be evacuated. But Villaraigosa, 52, once described by a fellow Democrat as having as much energy as "a hummingbird in flight," is busy taking another call, that one from Frank McCourt, the owner of the Dodgers, who congratulates the mayor-elect and reminds him that there are seats set aside for any game he chooses to attend...
There has always been a game of one-downsmanship among modern memoirists as to who has the weirdest, most dysfunctional, most damaging parents. Granted, Kathryn Har- rison more or less ran the table with 1997's The Kiss, which describes her four-year affair with her father, and Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes) and Augusten Burroughs (Running with Scissors) aren't far behind. But there's spirited competition for fourth place. Two new memoirs, Michael Rips' The Face of a Naked Lady (Houghton Mifflin; 192 pages) and Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle (Scribner; 288 pages), are worthy contenders...
...obscure, retired New York schoolteacher named Frank McCourt published Angela's Ashes, the story of his childhood in Ireland. The book became a best seller, won a Pulitzer, was turned into a movie?and revolutionized the status of the memoir. Until then, the privilege of telling one's life story to a paying public had been the preserve of celebrities, but after Angela's Ashes, the memoir was thrown open to anyone, however young or unimportant. The point was no longer to pack a book with facts about your life (studied here, married there) but to produce a narrative, preferably...