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Wood threw a right hook with something Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal spotted on a sign in his Prague dry-cleaner’s: “Some stains can be removed only by the destruction of the material itself...
Isaacs' personal life has been a piece of cake compared with her protagonist's. In addition to being a novelist, she has worked as a political speechwriter and a screenwriter. Isaacs has been happily married to white-collar-criminal defense attorney Elkan Abramowitz for 36 years. He was a hit with her family from day one, says the author. "They adored my husband. My maternal grandmother said, 'You've got someone from the Ivory League!'" --By Andrea Sachs
...breaching the President's medical privacy. His foreign policy, often considered driven by small-minded jealousies, is presented in a far more positive light by several historical works due out soon. Even his fatherhood is getting another airing: later this month Mitterrand's out-of-wedlock daughter, novelist Mazarine Pingeot, will publish Bouche Cousue (Not a Word, or literally Mouth Sewn Shut), which her publisher describes as an "extremely literary and very intimate" account in diary form of her relationship with a father who was devoted to her in private but couldn't acknowledge her publicly...
...ways that parallel children's make-believe play. Authors often report that their characters seem to have autonomous lives, dictating their own dialogue, controlling the plot of stories and sometimes refusing to do what the authors ask of them. Some writers maintain personal relationships with characters outside their fictions. Novelist Alice Walker says she lived with her characters for a year while writing The Color Purple, even moving from New York City to Northern California to please them. They didn't like the tall buildings and city congestion, she says...
...hand at fiction. "I'm an addicted reader of John le Carré," she says, "so I figured, Why not?" She holed up for long stretches at her beach home in Norfolk, East Anglia, where much of At Risk is set, and leaned heavily on the assistance of novelist Luke Jennings. "I'm quite good at thinking up plots and characters, but I needed help with pacing," she explains...