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...famous. It was 1948, America was looking for its Great War Novel, and there was Norman Mailer, with his jug-handle ears, his curly hair and The Naked and the Dead. The first of his 10 novels and more than two dozen other titles, it became a huge best seller. But fame soon turned fickle on him, or maybe vice versa. Mailer was too flighty, impious and vainglorious to fill the role of anointed American writer as the '50s conceived it, so for a while his reputation dimmed. But in the decades that followed, he hit his powerful stride with...
...such impassioned collector is Steve Wong, a plastic surgeon based in the capital. Over the past decade he has acquired around 80 works by Zakii and proudly claims he is a "zero seller." "It's very powerful," he says of the response Zakii's images, particularly his male nudes, can evoke. These nudes, though rarely explicit, are a bold statement in a conservative society like Malaysia - but for his part, Zakii claims they are not about sex. "I've had very little trouble with them," he says. The only incident he can think of involved a Malaysian-Chinese collector...
...course, the two worlds can meet. Afghan Shah Muhammad Rais claimed that his betrayal as a domestic tyrant in the global best-seller The Bookseller of Kabul, by Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad, exposed him to dishonor. So Rais did a very Western thing, launching a lawsuit against Seierstad for defamation in Norway. Then he went one better: Rais now has a deal with a Norwegian publisher for a book of his own. A spot on Oprah has to be next...
Rolling up your sleeves and doing good for others have become almost trendy, as indicated by the near instant best-seller status of Bill Clinton's new book, Giving, which celebrates numerous individuals who have traded in their corporate careers for the satisfying experience of volunteer work. By many accounts, the number of midlife meaning seekers is exploding, as more and more boomers move out of the workforce. "Giving back broadens the dimensions of what we call retirement," says Cicily Maton, a financial planner in Chicago. She says nearly all her post-50 clients give either money or time...
...coincidence that California, land of the experimental health regimen, was home to Judy Mazel's wildly successful 1981 best seller, The Beverly Hills Diet. An aspiring actress with no medical training, Mazel became frustrated in her quest to lose weight and invented her own program, which required eating fruit for 10 days and consuming just one type of food, such as carbs or proteins, at a time. Panned by health professionals, Mazel struck a chord with dieters who believed that self-educated people often know better than experts. In the '80s, Mazel, who said she lost...