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...some French colonists, Indochina was an idyll of sun-dappled verandas, silent servants and long glasses of Pernod in the afternoon. For others, like the family of novelist and filmmaker Marguerite Duras, it was an exhausting ordeal. Their story, as told in Duras' semi-autobiographical novel Un Barrage Contre le Pacifique (1950), is the subject of Cambodian director Rithy Panh's most recent work, The Sea Wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up Against the Wall | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...Crist were to become vice president, he'd leave Tallahassee with virtually no footprints. He would be remembered more for his tan than for his leadership." - Novelist Carl Hiassen, in a Miami Herald column on Crist's potential VP candidacy (The Miami Herald, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida Governor Charlie Crist | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

Chuck Palahniuk isn't a rock star, but he could be. The author of Fight Club, Choke and Invisible Monsters gives readings in concert halls, has been known to throw inflatable sex dolls into the audience and inspires fans to tattoo his name onto their arms. The novelist's official fan site boasts over 47,000 crazed Palahniuk-heads who openly refer to themselves as the Cult and sell book-tour T shirts the way music acts sell concert tees. His latest book, Pygmy, follows the terror plot of an adolescent foreign-exchange student/secret assassin as he infiltrates and tries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist Chuck Palahniuk | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

...love my husband more than I love my children," wrote Ayelet Waldman in the New York Times in 2005. The response was immediate and not kind. It didn't help that her husband was novelist Michael Chabon - beloved, actually, by many. She was branded a Bad Mother. Four years later, Waldman has written a book with that title. And no, she's not apologizing. (See Seven iPhone Apps for New Moms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ayelet Waldman: Bad Mother | 5/8/2009 | See Source »

...been eating the same burger almost every night for the past four years: a double cheeseburger with pickles, two packets of mustard and two packets of ketchup. Erhlich, captain of Harvard’s football team, a blogger for Go Crimson, and an aspirant novelist with a secondary in philosophy, was also the winner of b. good’s Cousin Oliver contest. He, in other words, is entitled to free burgers from the Dunster Street joint for the rest of his life.Four years ago, when Ehrlich was a freshman, b. good offered a lifetime supply of burgers to whoever...

Author: By Rebecca A. Cooper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Food For Thought | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

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