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...Powell, a neurotic, cash-strapped, Queens, N.Y., temp, decided that she was going to cook every single recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Powell, 30, is not a domestic goddess; she's emphatically, unembarrassedly a domestic mortal. But she is also a genuinely gifted thinker and writer about food. As we learn in the account of her culinary marathon, Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen (Little, Brown; 320 pages; Sept. 28), Child's gastronomical masterpiece teaches Powell precious lessons about herself. Chief among them? That "you are human...
...Benedict signaled by choosing Levada. "Everybody," says a powerful Rome-based Cardinal, "was expecting a European" for the key slot. Rome was certainly not anticipating a relatively obscure Archbishop from the scandal-plagued U.S. church. By tapping Levada, a personal acquaintance with a reputation as a practical if unspectacular thinker, Benedict may or may not have been arranging to act as the de facto head of his old shop. But he certainly showed a willingness...
...John’s reputation was as a first-rate legal thinker and writer,” he said...
What J.K. Rowling does doesn't look that hard either. She's not a showy stylist or a Big Thinker, but in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Scholastic; 652 pages), the sixth novel in the Potter series, she weaves a remarkable number of narrative threads into a complex, moving and elegantly balanced whole, without any apparent effort. Rowling loves to wrong-foot readers, and the previous book, Order of the Phoenix, reads like the loins-girding preamble to an all-out, good-vs.-evil, wand-on-wand wizard war. But Half-Blood Prince turns out to be something...
...many, Buckley is a brilliant thinker, speaker and writer. To others, he is a pitiless, pedantic, pretentious piercer of bleeding hearts. To me he is all these and more. Now that I have learned of his enthusiasm for computers, I consider him a secret blood brother. Richard H. Gramann McLean...