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...restaurant Oceana earlier this month. His historical thriller features Sigmund Freud on his sole visit to the U.S. in 1909, and a diabolical killer who is attacking Manhattan's wealthiest heiresses. "A bold page-turner," says Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club, "with a driving plot." A big Pennsylvania bookseller told PW, "there's no question that this will be the fall's big book...
...Satrapi's Persepolis, a two-volume remembrance of growing up in post-revolution Iran. We Are On Our Own by Miriam Katin recalls the author's early childhood living secretly as a Jew in Nazi-occupied Hungary. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, by Alison Bechdel takes place in suburban Pennsylvania, where the author's father led a secret double life. Though wildly divergent in setting, tone and approach, both books share a compelling interest in the consequences of a stressful childhood...
...someone who spent years in Roman Catholic schools, I have never felt so alienated from the very idea of Christianity and all its sociopolitical implications as I do today. When the end comes for me, I'm banking on God's being an independent. Erin M. Griffin Kingston, Pennsylvania, U.S. I appreciated Sullivan's stating the truth about Christianism and Christianists - very appropriate terms - and the similarities Christianists have with Islamists. Let me add, however, that no matter which beliefs people adhere to, instead of blindly following out-of-context phrases from ancient, and therefore dare I say slightly...
...George Clooney are using their public prominence to address serious problems. Celebrities who choose to get involved in pressing social issues can raise awareness and inspire others to take positive action. Depicting Jolie as a puffy-lipped, pregnant Virgin Mary, however, was a wee bit overboard. Jack Gordon Sewickley, Pennsylvania...
...Message: University of Pennsylvania's seniors, who were initially underwhelmed by the selection of the actress as speaker, gave standing applause to Foster's inspirational homily after she quoted the apostle Eminem: "You better lose yourself in the music, the moment...