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...Jong Il, consult one of the many tell-all memoirs written by former employees and associates. Published in Japan late last month, the newest book is Kim Jong-il's Chef, which offers an inside look from the kitchen. According to the author, who goes by the pseudonym Kenji Fujimoto (he says Kim threatened to kill him), the Dear Leader has a 10,000-bottle wine cellar, likes Mazda RX-7 sports cars, enjoys dog soup on Sundays and "every special dog-eating summer day" and thinks his second son, Kim Jong Chol, is "like a girl." The book claims...
Franklin created a similar character in Poor Richard Saunders, the pseudonym he used when he began to publish an annual almanac. The beauty of inventing a fictional author was that he could poke fun at himself by admitting, only half in jest, that money was his main motivation. "I might in this place attempt to gain thy favor by declaring that I write almanacks with no other view than that of the public good; but in this I should not be sincere," Poor Richard began his first preface. "The plain truth of the matter is, I am excessive poor...
Franklin knew that his brother would never knowingly print his pieces. So one night he invented a pseudonym, disguised his handwriting and slipped an essay under the printing-house door. The cadre of his brother's friends who gathered the next day lauded the anonymous submission, and Franklin had the "exquisite pleasure" of listening as they decided to feature it on the front page of the next issue...
...Those who have witnessed North Korean arms-manufacturing operations are not surprised that Japan is a source of components. Kim Do Sung, who defected from the North in 1997 and now goes by a pseudonym to protect relatives back home, says he worked for nine years at Plant 38, a huge armaments factory in the city of Huichon in the northern province of Jaggang. Kim says the vast majority of the computer chips and electronic components used in missile guidance systems there were Japanese. He recalls unloading a shipment of equipment from Japan that was like a Christmas stocking...
...childhood sweetheart, "Eric the famous writer." His first book, Down and Out in Paris and London, was a nonfiction account of several months in the late 1920s spent among hoboes and whores, picking hops and washing dishes. Worried about his parents' reaction to his stark life, he took the pseudonym George Orwell - probably from his hero Victorian novelist George Gissing and from the Orwell, a Suffolk river whose precincts the young nature lover hiked. It was a commercial flop, but it established him as a proletarian writer with an eye for detail. He began picking up commissions for essays...