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...Approximate number of Web site hits on thecrimson.com at the height of a plagiarism scandal surrounding student novelist Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 and her novel “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got A Life...
Last year the estate of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond (and also, fun fact, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), invited the novelist Sebastian Faulks to write a new Bond book under the Fleming pseudonym. Devil May Care (Doubleday; 278 pages) begins magnificently: a world-weary 007 drifts through the pleasure capitals of Europe, recovering from the exertions of Octopussy and wondering if it might be time to hang up his 00's for good. The 20th century is leaving him behind: it's the 1960s; there are hippies in the streets, and M is making him do yoga. But when...
...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...
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...
...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...