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TIME: You haven't given a full-length interview to TIME, or almost anybody else, in 30 years. You're also working on a memoir with music writer David Ritz. Why are you speaking...
Could Scaife be Mr. Big? It seems that among most conservatives there are only two degrees of separation from the ubiquitous philanthropist. Those who haven't taken money from him usually work with someone who has. Washington Post matriarch Katharine Graham writes in her memoir that Nixon wanted Scaife to buy the Post during the Watergate scandal. Scaife has also financed the Southeastern Legal Foundation, a backer of former FBI agent Gary Aldrich's loosely sourced, Clinton-bashing best seller Unlimited Access, and the Free Congress Foundation, which once set up a toll-free hot line for women who claimed...
...there's any justice in the world," said the New York Times in its 1993 review of Lars Eighner's Travels with Lizbeth, a memoir of homelessness, "[the book] should guarantee its author a roof over his head for the rest of his life." And indeed, in the weeks and months that followed the publication of Eighner's critically acclaimed work, the reviewer's wish seemed to come true. The Austin, Texas, writer soon moved into a three-bedroom house. His work appeared in Harper's and the New York Times. He lectured in Hawaii and San Francisco. Esquire magazine...
Katharine Graham's memoir a best seller...
...Odessa underworld. The younger Panofsky spent the early '50s in Paris, where he debauched with expats and married a crazy poet whose suicide ensured her canonization by academic feminists. What Barney calls "the true story of my wasted life" may seem undisciplined and chronologically impaired. In fact his memoir is cunningly designed for maximum suspense and beaucoup laughs. Going on 67, Barney has total recall of old grudges, past loves and 40-year-old hockey scores. But ask him what he uses to strain spaghetti and he goes blank...