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After the ambassadorial fiasco, Bill turned to the metier of novelist. His utterly atrocious "mystery," Mackerel By Moonlight, was greeted by the media as perhaps the worst book written in the Western World. Bill's career looked to be on a downward slippery slope, but he valiantly tried to salvage his reputation by returning to his background in law and purchasing an apartment in New York City to be close to all the action. Sadly, recent Boston Globe articles reported the demise of Weld's marriage with his quiet, cerebral wife--a woman notoriously shy of government functions and engrossed...
...Butterfield 8 novelist 2. Ad figure Joe 3. Frat letter 4. Org. overseeing Sydney festivities 5. Bessemer process leftover 6. She defeated Martina in the '85 U.S. Open 7. Coelho's out; he's in 8. The RIAA wants to shut it down 9. Nation that has apologized for its Holocaust role: abbr. 10. Kind of cow, horse, dog or man 12. The Justice Department will compensate his estate for his tapes and papers 15. Aquino's successor in the Philippines 19. Unknown, on a sked 21. Jesse Ventura, once 23. Prefix with log or gram 24. Novi __, Serbia...
...story of orphanhood, Ten Thousand Sorrows. "I don't see any sign of them waning," says Jeff Zaleski, book-review editor of Publishers Weekly. "The high-profile memoirs by famous people haven't done well, [but] there's been an increase in the common-man type of memoir." Novelist Martin Amis writes in his own new memoir Experience, "We live in the age of mass loquacity. We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur. Nothing, for now, can compete with experience--so unanswerably authentic, and so liberally...
...youth, and wants to make their acquaintance one more time. But nothing he begins writing, including the further adventures of Tom Sawyer and the story of God's wife, strikes him as worth pursuing. The one thing he refuses to consider doing is a novel about a novelist, a category he deems "already passe." The joke is on Pota; he doesn't realize that he is the hero of just such a novel...
Giving Kaku a run in the enthusiasm sweepstakes is Nicholas Negroponte, director of the M.I.T. Media Lab, who predicts a ubiquitous computing world sooner rather than later, a world in which refrigerators will know when your milk has gone bad and will order a fresh bottle. Novelist William Gibson, who coined the word cyberspace, even imagines a world in which your fridge (and your car and your toothbrush...) will be as smart...