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...Robert Sullivan puts it--an image that Sullivan, author of the rodent history Rats, says is entirely wrong. The man who penned Walden and Civil Disobedience was eminently sociable, quite funny and more interested in social critique than in actually persuading people to shun society and live in a shack in the woods. Walden was "written to inspire modern citizens to break out from the lockstep of culture and in so doing make a new connection to their community"--Thoreau as uniter, not divider. And despite Sullivan's insistence that he has not written a biography of the man, there...
Seated on a wooden chair inside his dilapidated shack in the Harare township of Mbare, primary school teacher Moses Majuru, 40, is both anxious and excited about the week ahead. Life has become a bit easier recently thanks to the Zimbabwean government's decision on Jan. 29 to abandon the Zimbabwean dollar for a raft of foreign currencies, including the U.S. dollar and the South African rand. "I am earning in real money. It feels good," says Majuru. "I can now put food on the table and feed my family." A smile spreads across his face...
...dining hall manager is known to break out his iTunes collection, while Eliot offers live piano music at Sunday brunch. But some staffers still aren’t satisfied. “I want some B-52’s playing…you know, ‘Love Shack,’” said Adams cook William D. Nicolson. “That would be sweet...
...stigma. Giga-selling fantasist Christopher Paolini started as a self-published author. After Brunonia Barry self-published her novel The Lace Reader in 2007, William Morrow picked it up and gave her a two-book deal worth $2 million. The fact that William P. Young's The Shack was initially self-published hasn't stopped it from spending 34 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. (See the top 10 fiction books...
...According to a front-cover quote from David McMillan, the author of Escape - another Klong Prem memoir, released in 2007 by the same publisher - Botts "opens his real-life experiences like a knife opening a cadaver." In fact, Botts' account is unharrowing. His description of a prison shack in what he calls "the garden," a flyblown island of mud and compacted human waste where the cons passed their days, reminded me of a scuzzy bungalow I once stayed in on Koh Samui...