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Publishing abhors a vacuum, and 2001 has been unfolding around a doozy of emptiness. Here is a vast new worldwide audience of readers galvanized by J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels, and no new Harry Potter installment will appear this year to slake the pent-up cravings of the boy wizard's devotees. Millions of people bereft! What's worse, many more millions of dollars unspent at bookstores...
Maxwell seemed initially to be a somewhat nervous reader. He looks like a young King Hal—red-haired and energetic—and my overwhelming impression was of pent-up energy: hands gripped bloodlessly to his text, voice cracking resonantly. He promised a reading in three parts: new, unpublished poems, followed by a few things from the The Breakage, and then two sections from his recently published long poem, “Time’s Fool.” Like all the readings organised by the Woodberry Poetry Room, his performance was recorded, and will join...
...sweet revenge may have to wait some time, however. Although the G4 laptop ($2,599 to $3,997, comparable to Vaio prices) will be officially released at the end of this month, there will probably be quite a bit of pent-up demand, and Apple has a long history of not delivering enough product on time. "We'll be making them just as fast as we can," Jobs told me. But when I asked if there would be a shortage, he smiled and said, "I hope so." Lines of would-be buyers clamoring for his products would, after all, make...
...extensive publicity during the summer and fall for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, not to increase sales--a laughable notion given the enormous, pent-up demand--but to make herself available to some of her young readers. In October she went public for a project unrelated to Harry Potter but of personal concern to her. She agreed to become the first ambassador, i.e., spokeswoman, for the National Council for One Parent Families, a British charity, and donated $725,000 to the cause...
...Then it was open season for those pent-up post-election platitudes. The requisite reminders that this wonderful country is capable of effecting a peaceful transition of power. The puzzled reflections that it was really Al Gore's election to lose. And at last, as memorably offered by the punchy Mr. Rather: "a big tip an a hip-hip-hooray and a great big Texas howdy to the next president of the United States. Sip it, savor it, cup it, photostat it, underline in red, press it in a book, put it in an album, hang it on a wall...