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...pattern repeated once I came to college. Instead of my own relatives, now it was the loved ones of my loved ones who were being diagnosed with a scary regularity, and I started reacting differently. When someone to whom I was personally close got ill, I had learned how to handle it. But when it was a family friend’s son or my godparent’s mother, I would react by doing something entirely unconstructive, like punching walls or practicing karate kicks or going for an obscenely long run. I started to get unreasonably angry, feeling like...
Born in Evanston, Ill. in 1922, Whitehead grew up in Montclair, NJ, the son of a telephone lineworker who lost his job in the depression and sold porch furniture to keep afloat...
...done this before, and he has agreed to do it again in the speech. But his critics continue to assail him, with few specifics. Much of this has been done without the standards one would hope for from an academic community. Disappointingly, the debate has at times descended into ill-informed and downright false character assassination. Many of those criticizing him have not taken the time to contact him, to ask questions, to find out facts. He has been called everything from “an apologist for men who do great evil?...
...VANITY PRESS: Toby Young details his belly flop in the New York journalism pool in "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" (Da Capo; July 4). Kirkus enjoys the dish. "Kiss-and-tell memoir of Young's ill-fated stint as contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine... This skewering of celebrity worship at the nation's leading 'upscale supermarket tabloid' bears a distinct resemblance to shooting fish in a barrel; nonetheless, Young's language is energetic and engaging, making one wish (along with his father, apparently) that he'd find a worthier subject. Enjoyably bitchy specifics of Cond? Nast culture...
...almost never wrote her first. The daughter of a factory manager from Oak Park, Ill.--the birthplace of Ernest Hemingway, the bard of brawn--the tiny, winsome Shields never imagined she could become a writer at all. "I thought it was like wanting to be a movie star!" she recalls. "I never thought writers could be people like me." Instead, she married Don Shields, an engineer, and moved to Canada, where she had five children in 10 years...