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From prostitute to professor and playwright, from country child to civil rights marcher to feminist, Endesha Ida Mae Holland has lived a life remarkable in itself and symbolic of half a century of astonishing U.S. social change. Her bluesy memoir has been toured by a trio of women, equally deft at folksy caricature and tragedy, who sing like the Liberty Bell...
From prostitute to professor and playwright, from country child to civil rights marcher to feminist, Endesha Ida Mae Holland has lived a life remarkable in itself and symbolic of half a century of astonishing U.S. social change. Her bluesy memoir has been toured by a trio of women, equally deft at folksy caricature and tragedy, who sing like the Liberty Bell...
Author David Foster Wallace--author of The Broom of the System and Girl with Curious Hairwill read from his memoir, "Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes." In Charlesbank Bookshops at the Boston University Bookstore Mall, fifth floor reading room, 660 Beacon St., Boston. Thursday, Dec. 12, at 7 p.m. For information call...
...love. "There's nothing like running your fingers over the letters on a newly printed page," he says. "It enhances the way you experience the words." At age 16 he leased his own letterpress, and Thornwillow was born. His first coup was printing historian William L. Shirer's memoir of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima. Since then Thornwillow has published works by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Helmut Kohl. This week it brings out The Presidency by Hugh Sidey. The book is available through Thornwillow Press in New York City; $300 leather, $75 cloth...
...presence of sexually available women on the sidelines of sport is nothing new. After all, Babe Ruth's appetite for women was as insatiable as his lust for food and booze. In his newly published memoir, A View from Above, Hall of Fame center Wilt Chamberlain boasts of having slept with 20,000 women -- an average of 1.4 a day for 40 years...