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Like the College’s English Department, the Extension School’s creative writing program covers a wide range of genres—from playwriting and memoir to novels...
...because it is. Richard Yancey has seen the all-powerful IRS from the inside out, spending 12 years as a government "repo man" pursuing businesses and individuals with long overdue taxes. Yancey left the job in 2003 with decidedly mixed impressions, which he writes about in his memoir, Confessions of a Tax Collector. Yancey spoke with TIME about his years as a revenue officer, getting jumped on the job and what to do if the IRS comes knocking. (Read "Another Victim of the Ponzi Schemers...
...spent 15 years entertaining American viewers alongside Regis Philbin. After an eight-year hiatus from television, she's back on the air, holding down the fourth hour of NBC's Today show with co-host Hoda Kotb. She also produces musicals, writes screenplays and has just released a new memoir, Just When I Thought I'd Dropped My Last Egg. Gifford talked to TIME about her new book, her life in the spotlight and why she doesn't lie about her age. (Read "Should Women Lie About Their...
...Absalom, a first play by 25-year-old actress Zoe Kazan (granddaughter of director Elia), is a more conventional family drama, set in Berkshires home of an aging book editor, who is having a party for his new memoir revealing some uncomfortable family secrets. Kazan stuffs her play with characters and incidents; old feuds and private griefs; sibling rivalries and the inevitable outsider - a prodigal adopted son, now a hot TV producer, who arrives at the party uninvited. Kazan manages all this with some flair, but the gears show too much; it's one of those plays where characters keep...
Like Job's, Cyrus' life story has been made into a book, Miles to Go. Hers is a memoir and a little longer (she's 16, after all), but both are tales of remarkable turns of fortune. At 12, Cyrus scored the lead role in the Disney TV series Hannah Montana, about a teenager, also named Miley, who is secretly a ginormous teen pop star. Four years later, Cyrus is very publicly a ginormous teen star, with three best-selling albums (on Disney's record label), the memoir (on Disney's book label), a sold-out concert tour, a record...