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...trivia. He goes to Stevens Point, Wis., for its annual town-wide 54-hr. trivia marathon. He hits trivia night in a Boston bar and kibitzes at a college quiz-bowl championship. He exhumes such trivia titans of yesteryear as John Timbs, the author of the 1856 best seller Things Not Generally Known, and Ruth Horowitz, the rebus-solving legend who dominated 20 straight episodes of Concentration in 1966. And of course Jennings gives us all the nerd-on-nerd action from his Jeopardy! stint, which he graciously chalks up to luck and good buzzer technique...
PARIS French women like the très slim look of Paper Denim's PEG Vintage skinny jean ($98), a huge seller at the Printemps department store...
College students this spring watched the flameout of Kaavya Viswanathan, the prepackaged Harvard prodigy who published a best seller at 19 and had been exposed as a plagiarist by 20. That's not the way things are supposed to unfold. College is supposed to be about the Best Four Years of Your Life, "the love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books," not to mention pizza and football and long, caffeinated nights of debate and confusion and discovery. All that families have to do to succeed, say veterans of the admissions wars...
...quell all Severgnini's provincial doubts, made the 27-year-old the paper's London correspondent. That London jaunt not only took Severgnini's fledgling journalistic career to the national level, but also gave him the material for An Italian in Britain, which became a best seller in the U.K. in 1991 and established him as a writer with global appeal. Severgnini, a fan of contradiction, prefers the term "provincial international." In La Bella Figura, Severgnini's third book to be exported from the Italian peninsula, his propensity for contradiction has found ample room. "Italy," he writes, "is the only...
Bird watching isn't actually Franzen's main gig. You probably know him as the author of the huge 2001 best seller The Corrections, a symphony of Midwestern, middle-class mental suffering that conveys depression and anxiety more entertainingly and eloquently than almost any book I've ever read, and which almost instantly made him the premier literary novelist in his age bracket. You might also possibly remember Franzen as the man who rather too honestly expressed his ambivalence over being chosen for Oprah Winfrey's book club, prompting Winfrey to honestly, unambivalently rescind her invitation to come...