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...OSAMA BIN LADEN really watch MacGyver, rock to Van Halen and lust after WHITNEY HOUSTON? Those are some of the claims made in an autobiography -- published in February but overlooked until Harper's printed excerpts last week by Sudanese born novelist Kola Boof, who says she was bin Laden's mistress in 1996. Boof, who wrote two scripts for Days of Our Lives, says bin Laden called Houston a beautiful woman "brainwashed by American culture and her husband, Bobby Brown, whom Osama talked about having killed." "Nobody in the West," Boof laments, "believes me when I tell...
...probably know him as the author of the huge 2001 best seller The Corrections, a symphony of Midwestern, middle-class mental suffering that conveys depression and anxiety more entertainingly and eloquently than almost any book I've ever read, and which almost instantly made him the premier literary novelist in his age bracket. You might also possibly remember Franzen as the man who rather too honestly expressed his ambivalence over being chosen for Oprah Winfrey's book club, prompting Winfrey to honestly, unambivalently rescind her invitation to come on her show...
...ones that I would love to read!" Sittenfeld says, exasperated. "It's almost like they're not seen as worthy of intelligent treatment." Funnily enough, the story of Sittenfeld as an author is exactly the opposite of the stories she tells in her books: she's the misfit novelist who has been spontaneously embraced by the reading world. Which makes you wonder what kinds of books will come out of all the success and affirmation. Will she still channel our collective awkwardness and alienation? "I was kind of joking with my editor," she recalls, "saying, you know, 'God save...
...conflicts of interest at major investment banks, who would rate company’s stocks favorably in order to win their investment banking business. Carefully reconstructing how Spitzer and his team discovered the crimes that would make them famous, Masters relates each case in superb detail and with a novelist's pacing and development. Her narrative approach allows the reader to be constantly caught up in the suspense as Spitzer and his team break open case after case...
Authors can rarely boast that their books soar instantly to No. 1, but they're not Janet Evanovich. The novelist's last seven books have done just that, and her latest, Twelve Sharp, is no exception - it has spent much of the summer atop the New York Times best-seller list. As usual, her spunky heroine, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, prevails against the odds. Evanovich, 63, got together with TIME's Andrea Sachs and talked about about her heroine, NASCAR and New Jersey's in-your-face attitude...