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...they win again? In her memoir, Hillary closed by writing of her final moments in the White House Grand Foyer. The longtime butler there "received my last goodbye embrace and turned it into a joyous dance. We skipped and twirled across the marble floor," she writes. "My husband cut in, taking me in his arms as we waltzed together down the long hall." A farewell, perhaps. Or maybe the Clintons will yet want to have another dance...
...many of 'em." Instead, he's trying to pass on what he's learned before, as he puts it, "I vanish into the big web up in the heavens." As well as giving spider talks at schools, he's busy adding to his self-published books of poetry and memoir. What he says of spiders might also go for his life: "Oh, it's a wonderful study...
...Blue State Blues,” a political memoir of Slavitt’s failed bid to represent Cambridge in the State House, paints a picture of an arrogant blowhard with a breathtaking contempt for voters and public policy...
Slavitt’s memoir shows that he still doesn’t realize why he failed as a candidate. It’s not because politics is perverted, or because Cantabridgians are dumb. It’s because he, the candidate, didn’t take the election seriously...
...once you get to Douglas Coupland (who published Generation X in 1991), the last novelist who on a moonless night could be taken for the V.O.A.G., the trail goes cold. Not quite abruptly--for a few twinkly, magical minutes interest swirled around Wallace, and Eggers (more for his memoir than his fiction), and Chuck Palahniuk--but, ultimately, definitively...