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...dozen years, from age seven, Eric was raised at the Royal Orphanage in Wolverhampton, an institution he describes as "bleakly Victorian." The school was bleak and chilly. "I was cold until I was nineteen," Idle recalled, conjuring up the deprivations George Orwell wrote in an essay-memoir of his own educational incarceration, "Such, Such Were the Joys...
Carpentaria Land Council office forever." Another laugh. "It was a brave publisher who took it up." Others might say clever. Established in 1995 as a bridge between commercial houses and academia, Giramondo's output has been small but sagacious. Peter Castro's novel The Garden Book and John Hughes' memoir The Idea of Home are but two literary hybrids that have monopolized Australia's recent prize lists. Says publisher and editor Ivor Indyk: "We're always looking for the exotic and the interesting and the complex under the surface of Australian culture...
...final days of the 2004 campaign, Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Democratic vice-presidential candidate John Edwards, learned that she had breast cancer. In her inspiring new memoir Saving Graces (Broadway), Edwards reflects, with her trademark frankness, on her battle with the disease as well as the death 10 years earlier of their son Wade in a freak auto accident. Edwards spoke with TIME's Andrea Sachs about her health, her family's wealth and the possibility of John Edwards...
Think of Mitch Albom as the Babe Ruth of popular literature, hitting the ball out of the park every time he's at bat. His 1997 memoir, Tuesdays with Morrie, was a record-breaking best seller, with 11 million copies in print in 41 countries. The popular TV film of the book, which he wrote, garnered four Emmys. His 2003 novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, added another 8 million copies to his scorecard. He also maintains his day job as a sports columnist and radio commentator. TIME spoke with Albom, 48, just as his much awaited...
...Union Square Cafe in New York City in 1985. The downtown eatery has become the cornerstone of one of America's most successful restaurant organizations, a culinary empire that runs the gamut from white tablecloth to outdoor hamburger shack. The common theme, as he explains in his new memoir-cum-business manual, Setting the Table (HarperCollins), is something he calls "enlightened hospitality," an idea he will happily apply to any business endeavor. He serves up quite a bit of advice in his book. A sampling...