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Dorit Seideman's daughter Yael, 7, had been learning about the biblical Pharaoh before the Passover holiday earlier this month. Yael's schoolteacher assigned her to write a letter to Pharaoh. "Dear Pharaoh, please come over for coffee," she wrote. "I'd like to ask you to bomb the Palestinians." Seideman was appalled. "Do you really want to kill them all?" she asked. "No," said Yael, "only the bad ones." Right now Israel's official policy is in line with Yael's letter, and that's disturbing to Seideman, who campaigned for the Peace Now movement until the birth...
...week?' This is supposed to be fun," Frank said. When I asked him to expound on this fun idea, Frank said lots of people use the time to exercise or read. I told him to try again on the fun thing. He suggested, "Learn an instrument or write a book." People who don't watch TV are either freakishly ambitious or they do so many mind-altering drugs to soothe their bored brains that they no longer have any idea how long a week actually is. I gave him one more shot at the fun question. "It should...
...entire book is imaginary; it's not a work of autobiography at all. Having said that, it's me who's doing the writing. You can't escape your own life experiences when you're writing and you shouldn't try to. I shouldn't write about underwater exploration of caves, I just don't know anything about it. Or race car driving. Well, unless I did research...
...English seminar that week, Laura was asked to write about a recent event. She responded with an angry poem addressed to her father’s shooter, which ended with the promise, “this hand will find you / I am his daughter.” In a recent interview with The Crimson, she recalled the emotional roller coaster she was on as she wrote the poem, her sense of confusion and powerlessness, as though her entire world had been turned upside down. The poem disguised her fears beneath a façade of anger and threats...
...book that draws the reader deep into the author’s mind, something with which Laura is not entirely comfortable—she became a journalist, she explains, because she wanted to write about others. There was, however, no way to avoid the profoundly personal nature of her story and, indeed, that is what makes it great. She recently talked with Bill Clinton, who called to praise the book and mentioned how he related to Laura’s brother’s difficulty with her parents’ divorce. While this public intimacy with her life...