Word: pseudonymously
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Seierstad describes herself as bi-gendered: free to circulate among men but also able to enter the welcoming?and asphyxiating?world of Afghan women. After covering the fall of the Taliban, Seierstad joins the household of an erudite bookseller for four months. She is drawn to Sultan Khan (a pseudonym) because of his encyclopedic knowledge of Afghan culture?she calls him "a history book on two feet"?and his valiant role in protecting the country's literature from the Taliban by secreting ancient texts behind false shelves. But Seierstad quickly concludes that Khan's progressive views on Islam stop outside...
Here to remedy that is Stanley Bing, whose roundly entertaining and surprisingly touching novel, You Look Nice Today (Bloomsbury; 291 pages), is set almost entirely in the carpeted corridors of a large, faceless multinational conglomerate. Bing (the name is a pseudonym) writes a column for FORTUNE magazine (published by Time Inc., as is TIME), but he also has a day job as an executive at a major corporation. Thus he knows whereof he writes...
...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...
...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...