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...Mark O’Donnell, who is a novelist and playwright, says that the life of a writer is like “a gypsy path”—where the wagon keeps rolling from one job to the next...
FRANCINE PROSE novelist (Blue Angel...
...become Governor of Chiba prefecture. Last fall, in a special election to fill a seat in the Lower House of the Diet, Japan's parliament, outsider Etsuko Kawada defeated the major party candidates. Governors with an independent streak are starting to stand up to the national government. Nationalist novelist Shintaro Ishihara, Governor of Tokyo, imposed a controversial local tax on banks last year. Tanaka has found inspiration in all of those moves. "He's revolutionary," says Ikuo Kabashima, a professor of law at the University of Tokyo. "It's not necessarily a question of whether he works within the system...
...film The Exorcist. DIED. BRUNO CAVALIERI DUCATI, 96, architect, author, and last surviving founder of the motorcycle company that bears his name; in Ispra, Italy. DIED. PERRY COMO,88, causal crooner whose career in show business spanned six decades; in Jupiter, Florida. (See Eulogy) DIED. R.K. NARAYAN, 94, prolific novelist and author of short stories that characterized subcontinental village life; in the southern Indian city of Madras. Narayan was an early pioneer among Indian literati writing in English. CHARGED. LI SHAOMIN, 45, U.S. citizen and business professor who had been detained in China for three months, with spying for Taiwan...
Others are catching the acting bug. Author Jonathan Ames appeared in a literary boxing match and ended up with a broken nose. Authors Matthew Klam and Lucinda Rosenfeld did a reading at TSE, an exclusive Madison Avenue shop, donning the store's pricey cashmere togs. Novelist Rick Moody has even served as the opening act for a rock band, the Magnetic Fields...