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...book that she gave you the gift of grace. Right. It's not the book I thought I would write. I thought I would write something that was just funny. But I don't have control over that; my subconscious does the writing. And I like it better than I would have, I think. It's got some stories in there that are a little heavy for holiday reading. But holidays are a heavy, heavy time. We make light of them with our red and green and our stockings and candy canes, but people think heavy thoughts over the holidays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author Augusten Burroughs | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...read an interview from 2006 in which you said you felt like you were done writing about your own life. Oh, you know us memoirists. All we do is lie. I hate saying it, because it's going to sound awful: "Memoirist Says Writing 'Cathartic.' " But it is. I definitely want to write novels, but I seem to have to continue to process these other events. My next book is not a novel, but it's also not a memoir. It's a very different book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author Augusten Burroughs | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...Stories about families] will probably be the last stories we ever write,” he said. “They are stories that arrest, sustain and reward the reader time and time again...

Author: By JOANNE S. WONG, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Book Festival Draws Crowd | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...subject. Thanks to my good-faith attempts to learn something about the issue, I’m familiar with the problem of asymmetric information and the meaning of terms like “rationing” and “end-of-life counseling.” I could write you a list of countries that have a single-payer health-care system or drop a casual reference to the “Baucus bill...

Author: By Daniel P. Robinson | Title: Ignorance Is This | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...pundit is expected to be able to opine on any development, at any moment, regarding any issue. While some scholars make a career out of studying the details of a particular policy area, the most influential public intellectuals are those that take the broadest view. The same columnists currently writing about health care in The New York Times were writing about the stimulus bill last winter and will continue to write about whatever next occupies the national consciousness...

Author: By Daniel P. Robinson | Title: Ignorance Is This | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

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