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...rather surprising assertion that it is not fictional at all. The second chapter of The Last Thing He Wanted (Knopf; 227 pages; $23) begins, "For the record this is me talking. You know me, or think you do. The not quite omniscient author." This claim that Didion, the journalist and screenwriter, is writing as herself is followed by the news that she had considered giving herself an invented identity and name, to wit "Lilianne Owen," and telling the story under this disguise. That, she adds, didn't work: "As Lilianne Owen I could not have told you half of what...
...having uttered one of the hippest of asides while in our boundaries. And speaking yet again of the Leopold-Loeb Trial (that first of many Trials of the Century, Chicago, 1924), I cite Chicago as Capital of the Brash, for the immortal Best Lead Ever Written by a Journalist. Boy geniuses Leopold and Loeb killed Bobby Franks, and they went to prison. Loeb was filleted in what was presumed to have been a failed homoerotic approach, and Ed Lahey, in the Daily News, led off, "Richard Loeb, despite his erudition, today ended his sentence with a proposition...
Jack and Jackie, themselves inveterate gossipers and image tenders, would probably not be surprised to see how hard these writers have worked to shatter that privacy. But as Jackie said to journalist Theodore H. White during their famous Camelot interview, "When something is written down, does that make it history? The things they...
Devotees of Candace Bushnell,--a journalist who looks like Suzanne Somers with a polo-club membership--approach her writing the way they might a car wreck or a Peter Greenaway movie: they know it might repel, but they are forced to have a look. For two years Bushnell's column "Sex and the City" has appeared regularly in the New York Observer--a salmon-colored weekly paper doted on by Manhattan's media elite--offering bleakly funny reportage on dating rituals among the city's most physically and financially privileged. Now 25 of her pieces have been compiled...
DIED. JESSICA MITFORD, 78, muckraking journalist and best-selling author; of cancer; in Oakland, Calif. In her quest to "embarrass the guilty," Mitford wrote books on the funeral business (The American Way of Death, 1969), the U.S. prison system (Kind and Unusual Punishment, 1973) and obstetrics (The American Way of Birth, 1992). She also wrote about her aristocratic and eccentric British family, from which she was disinherited after eloping with a second cousin in 1936. Her eldest sister was the novelist Nancy Mitford...