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Naughty, naughty, naughty! Gloria Vanderbilt, the famous heiress, writer (of four memoirs and two novels), painter, actress, socialite and designer-jeans magnate, has written a sizzling XXX-rated book, Obsession: An Erotic Tale. At 85, Vanderbilt is old enough to know better. What does her son, celebrated CNN newsman Anderson Cooper, think about Mom's latest project? TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs checked in with the author at her Manhattan home...
...American Academy in Rome (during that time, he met Pope John Paul II and rather embarrassedly knelt and kissed his ring). But by all accounts McCourt himself was in no way transformed by his success. Though that doesn't mean he didn't enjoy it immensely. "I wrote a book about growing up miserable, and the next thing I know I'm here," he said. "It's absurd, isn't it? It's extraordinary...
...like a child: detached, simple, in the present tense. "I had this extraordinary illumination, or epiphany," he said. "Children are almost deadly in their detachment from the world ... They are absolutely pragmatic, and they tell the truth, and somehow that lodged in my subconscious when I started writing the book...
...result was his memoir Angela's Ashes, which appeared in 1996, when McCourt was 66. The book told the story of his early years in a voice purged of anger and bitterness and self-pity. In an extraordinary act of forgiveness, he wrote about his father with humor and even compassion. Angela's Ashes was published quietly, as the personal memoir of an Irish childhood. "My dream was to have a Library of Congress catalog number, that's all," McCourt said. But it became first a critical sensation, then a runaway best seller. In 1997 McCourt won the National Book...
McCourt followed Angela's Ashes with two more volumes of memoir. 'Tis picked up where his first book left off, on his arrival in New York City; it sold spectacularly but received mixed reviews. Teacher Man - which was both a critical and commercial success - recounted his backbreaking years teaching English and creative writing, 18 of them spent at New York's famous magnet school Stuyvesant, where he was a legend as a compelling teacher. "George Bernard Shaw said those that can do, and those that can't teach," McCourt was fond of observing. "Just goes to show that Shaw didn...