Word: overnighting
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...this is not a story about overnight success. For one thing, Edwards is 48, which pretty much disqualifies her from child prodigy-hood. For another, she was already successful. She's a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and her short stories have garnered her a Whiting Award, a Pushcart Prize and a National Magazine Award, among many others. She's a professor at the University of Kentucky. Her writing already made her a living. It just hadn't made her famous...
...Edwards isn't an overnight sensation, she isn't a character either. She's serious and straightforward, thoughtful and deliberate. Born in Texas and raised in upstate New York, she spent her entire life planning to be a writer. "When I was very, very young, I just knew that that was something I wanted to do," she says. "Before I could read, my mother will tell stories of how I would just pester her constantly to read to me." When she was in college at Colgate, Edwards studied with Frederick Busch, who became a mentor. After earning...
...with no way to board my plane home some days later. As this dawned on, me paranoia set in. I retraced my steps. Eventually I calmed down, cancelled my credit cards, filed a police report, found friends to loan me money, and got my parents to overnight my passport. I kept telling myself that things weren’t that bad. But not even Monty Python could cheer me up. Just when everything seemed lost, I got a call. “We just got home and there was a message from a guy named Marty...
...been struggling to bring to heel. As one British online gaming firm boasted in a recent Times Square billboard: "EVERYBODY BETS." That may well be true, but the Justice Department is out to show that the luck of longtime winners like Carruthers and his firm can change overnight...
...forge a successful acting career, with roles in more than 30 films including Sayonara, Pete's Dragon and The Poseidon Adventure; in Los Angeles. Born Aaron Chwatt, he was nicknamed for his red hair and the brass buttons on his uniform at an early gig and became an overnight hit in 1952 with his own CBS variety show. He won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his 1956 portrayal of a U.S. airman in a doomed romance with a Japanese woman in Sayonara, starring Marlon Brando. "I'm a little guy," Buttons once said, "and that's what I play...