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Much of the book is based on Delbanco’s own life, including her post-graduation experiences and her work as a writer for Seventeen magazine. But she says her choice of subject matter was also based on the fact that she would “have to stay interested in it for years.” She started the novel in graduate school at the University of Michigan and finished it four years later...
...same time she also realized that graduate school would be somewhat of an inevitability, even though she liked her job at Seventeen. Her first job at the magazine was not, as her character Rosalie summed up someone in an entry-level jobs as “assistant-ish looking person holding a stack of manila folders...
...That was a great experience,” Delbanco says of Seventeen, “I got to travel to a different high school in America and write a story about...
...from Canada, what they neglect to mention is this: prescription drugs bought by Americans increasingly are produced in foreign countries with minimal FDA oversight and then shipped to the U.S. In 2002 pharmaceutical imports to the U.S. totaled $40.7 billion, a nearly fivefold increase from $8.7 billion in 1995. Seventeen of the 20 largest drug companies worldwide now make drugs in Ireland, largely because of tax incentives. Pfizer's Lipitor for cholesterol, the largest-selling drug in the world, is made in Ireland. So too is Viagra, for erectile dysfunction. AstraZeneca's Nexium, for heartburn and acid reflux, comes from...
Before the 2002 Olympics, the perception of Salt Lake City, Utah, was no postcard: picture a geographically isolated and socially conservative burg with a dead lake to the west and a deader night life. Seventeen days, several billion television viewers and more than 300,000 visitors later, Salt Lake was something to write home about: a world-class destination that attracted a record number of skiers who found powder, speed and fun. "Everyone here was exceptionally happy during the Olympics. I think they were relieved not to have their low expectations realized," says Renee Crabtree, owner of Renee...