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...Conversation Editor and critic Sara Nelson on the lessons she gleaned from her 52-week reading marathon
...poor and not have your possibilities revealed to you. So I feel like if I can do that for as many young girls as I can reach, I would have served part of my purpose here. WHY SOUTH AFRICA? I am drawn to South Africa because of Nelson Mandela, who has become a personal friend, and my love of the country. I think that for every act of generosity in the world, regardless of where it is given--in Mississippi, Montana or Mozambique--it's O.K., because it's spreading that kind of energy out into the world...
...Sara Nelson is the consummate publishing insider. She has covered books as editor, reviewer, reporter and columnist for such media outlets as Glamour, the New York Times, Self, the Wall Street Journal, Oxygen and the New York Observer. Nelson set out on a mission to read 52 books in 52 weeks and write about her experience. The result is So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading (Putnam; 242 pages). TIME spoke with Nelson...
...been to a lot of funerals in South Africa,” she explains, “and I was using earth colors that reminded me of the red dirt of home.” She then expanded into painting historic sites like Robin Island, where Nelson Mandela was exiled. These paintings, she says, “represented a past regime that my father lived through, something that is a part of my history but that I didn’t live through...
They win because of Mariano Rivera. They win because of Mike Mussina, Andy Pettitte, David Wells and David Cone. They win because Mike Stanton and Jeff Nelson shut down the big boppers and because their workhorse pitchers don’t collapse in the seventh or eighth innings...