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Retired police officer Harry McCormick, 68, of Northport, N.Y., was so relaxed during his visit to the Cranwell Resort, Spa & Golf Club in Lenox, Mass., that while there he managed to write the last pages of a book about his life in law enforcement--between massages and frequent stops at the pool, sauna and steam room. He and wife Maureen, 66, a retired secretary, stay at the hotel at least twice a year. They spend about $700 on treatments, including Maureen's facials and his deep-tissue massages, which give him relief from two herniated discs. "It's like Dorothy...
...then go to rehab, write a book about it, inspire millions of readers and make a ton of money...
Karr isn't the only memoir writer who's mad as hell. Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle, says she has been losing sleep over it. "What he did is wrong on so many levels, and I'm outraged by it," she fumes. "He lied. Writing a memoir, especially one like he was supposed to have done--or one like I did--is a very personal thing. You sit down, and you write about your innermost feelings and your experiences, and you share them with your readers. When it succeeds, it's a very intimate exchange...
...WROTE THIS SCRIPT AS WELL AS SENSE AND SENSIBILITY. DO YOU HAVE ANY RITUALS WHEN YOU WRITE? No. My husband restored a barn in Scotland where we partly live, and he made a space at the top and said, "That'll be where you write." I haven't written a bloody thing there because it was designed for me to write in, so of course I can only write in the toilet. I write longhand. I find computers so overwhelming. They seem somehow more adult than...
...Dear Crimeds, I write with some disappointing news. After a two and a half year fight, we lost our case against Harvard and the Harvard University Police Department, which was heard last November in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. As most of you know, The Crimson brought suit against Harvard to force its Police Department to release more detailed crime reports. While Massachusetts public record law requires its public police forces to release reports filed in response to calls, the new court ruling asserts that, HUPD, a private entity, is not required by public record law to release all incident...