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...More of These Boobs" The Libertarian write-in candidate for Alabama Governor has been handing out T shirts with her slogan and a picture of her ample cleavage. Below it are her opponents' faces, with the line "And less of these boobs...
...pages) Gurr reveals what's been going on in the rooms of his mind and casts his wisdom to the world beyond the writer's sanctuary. This form, he says, is radically different territory for him; less visceral, more conscious and considered. "For the first time I had to write in my own voice and learn to use the word I," he says. "Whenever you get an intimation of being comfortable, you should jump out and do the next thing-and this...
Eggers is, of course, a famous writer: he is the author of the bestselling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. It's odd that the two men even know each other, but a few years ago Deng was looking for someone to help him write his life story, and a charitable foundation for Sudanese refugees helped him reach out to Eggers. Intrigued, Eggers agreed to a meeting, and the two became friends. Now they've collaborated on a moving, frightening, improbably beautiful book, a lightly fictionalized version of Deng's life titled What Is the What: The Autobiography...
...thousands of voters who packed tarmacs and arenas from Aberdeen, S.D., to Blountville, Tenn. This midterm election is also turning out to be all about Bush, but it's a much lonelier experience for him. He still fills smaller rooms, especially the kind where people are willing to write five-figure checks for the privilege of lunch with a Republican President. And he's welcomed warmly in places where having local reporters point out Bush's difficulties provides a diversion from the candidate's own. But when Air Force One touches down in tightly contested congressional districts these days...
...were pleased to see our book, Searching for Mary Poppins: Women Write About the Intense Relationships Between Mothers and Nannies, mentioned in Po Bronson's Essay "Barbie to Baby Einstein: Get Over It" [Oct. 9]. Bronson says our book, however, has a small place because "only 1 in 20 kids in the U.S. will ever be cared for by a nanny." If this book ends up being important to almost 4 million boys and girls, what's wrong with that? Plus you would have to add their parents to that number, as well as their nannies, to estimate how many...