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...This year several lawmakers will spend their time stumping for (or against) President Obama's health-care plan. Once that's all done, though, many take actual vacations: Arizona Representative Raul Grijalva plans to spend four days in a cabin near the Grand Canyon. There he will "read a book that is pointless and have no phone service," he says. "Perfect...
...have long been an advocate of cheating. It started when my dad fooled an IRS auditor by comparing different vintages of phone book, finding an out-of-business furrier and getting me to use my Apple IIe to create a fake receipt to prove a false fur-coat donation. I'm a big fan of the statute of limitations. While some would call that tax fraud, I thought of it as preventing animal cruelty...
Like a map with a scale of 1:1, Imperial is practically the size of the territory it describes: Imperial County, in southwestern California, right on the Mexican border. It's a bizarre book, but then, Imperial is a bizarre place. Home to such oddities as Slab City and the Salton Sea, it's an arid region caught in a cycle of convulsive agricultural booms and busts driven by massive irrigation projects and abetted by copious supplies of undocumented immigrant labor. A combination history book, documentary, autobiography and topographical survey, Imperial is Vollmann's obsessive, strangely engrossing attempt to articulate...
Ephron's movie is based on the book of the same name, Powell's account of the year she spent cooking her way through Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and blogging about her experiences. By turns amusing, profane and whiny, Julie & Julia was a best seller. It did not include a blurb from Child, who reportedly found Powell's project disrespectful and unserious. Thankfully, in writing her screenplay, Ephron drew on a second source, Child's memoir My Life in France (published after Child's death in 2004 and written with Alex Prud'homme). The Child...
...women into soul sisters, an unusual move for the director who has brought us so many happy, tidy endings (Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail). Powell is not devious or awful, but she's not exactly a basket of kittens either - not on the pages of her book and not as portrayed by the extremely game Adams...