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...published in 2007, was a knockout - a comic novel set in an office and told in the first person plural by a watercooler Greek chorus. That device was either a lucky stunt or a carefully calibrated masterstroke. Either way, a sophomore slump wouldn't have been surprising. Even Zadie Smith had The Autograph Man. But Ferris - who's a year older than Smith and approximately as good-looking - has gone the other...
Counter said that he plans to return to Haiti in the near future with one thousand body bags and one hundred tents, all donated by actor Will Smith...
...bonanza on Wall Street. One of the Obama administration’s purported goals was to help Main Street. The stimulus package, health care reform, and tax credits were all ways in which it was and is trying to achieve this goal. But when John Smith opens up the newspaper, he reads about “Bonus Day” on Wall Street. There is very little about how President Obama is directly working to inform the public of his plans to salvage a deepening recession and how the financial markets are affecting their daily lives...
...readership of foreign fiction needs to be cultivated over time. But the hunger for it is there: "There's a tradition of exceptionalism and insularity in America, but there's also a tradition of openness and interest in other parts of the world." In the book's preface, Zadie Smith writes, "I was educated in a largely Anglo-American library, and it is sometimes dull to stare at the same four walls all day." Best European Fiction puts in 35 new windows. You don't have to love all the views, but it's certainly nice to have them...
...King to "the same level as the father of our country and above the many other Americans whose achievements approach that of Washington's" by making him one of the few individuals honored by a federal holiday. The day before the bill passed the Senate, District Judge John Lewis Smith Jr. denied Helms' request to unseal FBI surveillance tapes of King that were due to remain sealed until 2027. President Reagan signed the bill into law in November 1983 and the first official holiday was observed on the third Monday of January...