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...tells all in Ghosting: A Memoir (Canongate; 273 pages), a meditation on literary identity and a surprisingly generous love letter to the person who reaped praise and prestige from her labors while keeping her in salaried obscurity. (Discreetly, she refers to him only as "Tiger," after the lifelike tiger-skin rug that adorned his lavish Soho office.) In 1981, Tiger hired Erdal, then an editor and translator on the east coast of Scotland, to develop Russian authors for his Quartet Books. She found him to be demanding, impetuous and thoroughly charming, with a child's enthusiasm and an immigrant...
...were given through motion and music as much as word. Bloom and Dubble emphasized that they had developed a private personal vocabulary that did not have to be articulated or premeditated. Dubble described it as “trying to listen with all of my cells, even with my skin...
...what are we doing? What are we accomplishing by not sleeping? Sleep deprivation certainly doesn’t do anything for our physical appearance—getting a good night’s rest is crucial for good skin and surprisingly enough, for losing weight. Besides making you look like a train-wreck, sleep deprivation can make you feel disgusting as well: a lack of rest increases stress levels and reduces that elusive productivity that we’re all so worried about...
...more understated but equally pleasurable alternative, try the Aljibe de San Miguel Ba?os ?rabes, tel: (34-958) 52 28 67. Beyond its brass-studded wooden doors are six pools heated to different temperatures and spiked with skin-softening sea salt. Sip the gratis mint tea while soaking, and afterward enjoy a soothing aromatherapy massage for a mere...
...match the play of Curt Schilling. While a specially-made ankle boot was expected to aid the ailing Schilling in Game 6 of the ALCS, the blood soaking through Schilling’s sock as he threw told a different story. In an unprecedented procedure, his doctors stitched his skin to his bone—keeping the tendon in his ankle in place. Amazingly, Schilling performed his usual magic in pain, and he remarkably repeated this feat during Game 2 against St. Louis...