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Recently Weakland has taken time away from work: in 1996 the Juilliard piano graduate toiled on a doctoral dissertation on liturgical chant at Columbia University (leading Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, whose workfare program Weakland had faulted, to snap that the Archbishop should "read his Bible instead of playing piano in...
But I persevered. I became inspired by the story of Kris Kristofferson, who once complained to a friend, "How am I going to make it? I sing like a frog," to which the acquaintance replied, "But you're a frog who can write!" And write he did, penning such gems...
But then Denver was never really hip. The multimillion-selling career that began with his penning of "Leaving on a Jet Plane" for Peter, Paul and Mary and crested with "Rocky Mountain High," "Sunshine on My Shoulders" and "Take Me Home, Country Roads" was never the messianic scamper of a...
After 14 years of penning his quirky cartoon, The Far Side, Larson retired two years ago, disappointing millions of fans who got their daily fix of the bizarre in 1,900 newspapers around the world. The Far Side's popularity, however, has never faded. Larson continues to rack up impressive...
--When Willard Met Babe Ruth By Donald Hall (Browndeer; $16) This book, like much of Hall's adult work, is set in Wilmot Flat, New Hampshire. Here, some time ago, a burly fellow named Babe Ruth, then a member of the Boston Red Sox, slid his roadster into a ditch...