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...able to “achieve something great, make an impact” by telling Valentino’s story in the form of a novel. “That sense of duty that you have to a person—telling it well was everything. Just telling it wasn??t good enough,” Eggers said. Valentino explained his motivation in seeking someone out to help him write his autobiography and detail his experiences as a refugee. “This is a story of the war that affected an entire nation. It?...
...great day.” Stiller, who attended the University of California in Los Angeles for nine months in 1983, said he was impressed by how “on the ball” the students are at Harvard. “I wasn??t a good student. I was sort of creative or whatever,” he said. “But, you know, the depressing thing is you come here and meet all these guys who are creative and really smart and have it all going on.”After his recent visit...
...those pressures, they almost certainly would combine to make water,” he said, noting that it would be surprising if there wasn??t water since “water is so easy to make...
...choice of different colors for shirts and shorts, bowls of oranges, or a bed of their own. Inevitably, the decision to cast Deng’s story as a work of fiction comes into question, and one wonders if it somehow implies that the story wasn??t good enough to stand on its own, or whether focusing on just one man sacrifices enormity of the story of thousands of Lost Boys.Indeed, there are points where Eggers’ stylistic choices seem heavy-handed (on the 13th time that a transition into the past begins with the formulaic address...
...celebrity gets you a book deal. Bookstores abound with middling memoirs that made it through publishing houses because of the author’s name recognition. Of course, some celebrities do write “real” books. Jimmy Carter wrote a novel that, to most reports, wasn??t half bad, though it does have a sex scene (a disturbing thought). A whole bevy of celebrities, from Jodie Foster to Jamie Lee Curtis, have written children’s books. Not all approve of these celebrity compositions. The MotherReader blog argues for the creation...