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...Novelist Michel Houellebecq became one of France's best literary exports with his bad-boy attitude, and writing so raw and explicit that it could make even the saltiest readers blush. Now, to Houellebecq's presumed chagrin, the world is finding out where he got his in-your-face attitude: from his mother. In what has to be the consummate nightmare of any male with a fearless reputation, Houellebecq is getting a very public spanking from his own mother - and, man, is she one hacked-off lady. Even worse for the 50-year-old Houellebecq: she is showing the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist's Mother Fires Back | 5/2/2008 | See Source »

What really makes the TIME 100 special is the pairings: Jerry Seinfeld explaining how Chris Rock gets away with breaking every rule of political correctness, novelist Robin Cook on how scientist J. Craig Venter may be coming close to inventing a living thing. The maestro of those pairings is deputy managing editor Adi Ignatius, who presides over the TIME 100 issue and orchestrates not only the choices but also who will write about whom. He was ably helped by editors Belinda Luscombe, Bobby Ghosh, Bill Saporito, Jeffrey Kluger and Amy Sullivan. Deputy art director D.W. Pine came up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The TIME 100 Team | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

...Mailer ’43 liked to talk during sex, his longtime mistress Carole Mallory said in a revealing interview with The Crimson yesterday.Three weeks ago, Harvard received Mallory’s collection of materials documenting her nine-year relationship with Mailer, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, journalist, and playwright who died last November.“I’m an important part of his life,” Mallory said. “I was. I am.” The former model and actress said she sent the archive to Harvard to recognize her significance...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In Interview, Mailer's Mistress Recalls a Lover and a Mentor | 4/30/2008 | See Source »

...relation between those who create art and those who critique it is notoriously fraught, something that was evident quickly to the standing-room only crowd in Sever Hall last night that watched novelist Jonathan Franzen face English professor James Wood, who has been one of his toughest critics. Wood, who is also a staff writer for The New Yorker, is noted for his censure of the postmodern social novel, which he termed the “contemporary American novel in its big triumphalist form” in a 2001 review of Franzen’s novel...

Author: By Alison S. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: With Critic, Franzen Criticizes Criticism | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

Several years ago, Mallory contacted Leslie A. Morris, Harvard’s curator of modern books and manuscripts, to inquire about the University’s interest in purchasing the archive, which provides insight into the life of the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, journalist, and playwright who died last November...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mailer Sex Stories Arrive at Harvard | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

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