"Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin" real story about real life
26 Apr 2011 02:54:07
An imprint of Simon & Schuster announced Monday that it had signed up "Blind Allegiance," a long-rumored tell-all by former Palin aide Frank Bailey. The imprint, Howard Books, will release Bailey's book May 24. Excerpts from an early draft were leaked to reporters earlier this year.
Bailey worked with Palin while she was governor of Alaska and when she was John McCain's running mate on the Republican presidential ticket in 2008.
Howard Books is calling "Blind Allegiance" a "chilling expose." Aut... Read Full Story
"Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar" its a new and unussual book from Richard Ford
23 Apr 2011 04:59:09
Such theories are explored in a collection of 32 short stories titled, "Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar" (Harper Perennial), edited by Richard Ford. It is a rich compendium that seeks to define, defend and explain the importance of work using complex characters that range from a veteran waiter aboard a train to a lauded but aging poet seeking his muse in Italy.
Most societies rely on work to help define, judge, idolize or shun a person, and many succumb to the urge of asking someone they ju... Read Full Story
The real story called "Reading My Father" from Alexandra Styron
23 Apr 2011 04:57:22
It was, as his youngest daughter, Alexandra, writes in a compelling new memoir, before Kay Jamison, Andrew Sullivan or other fellow sufferers had journeyed "back from the fresh hell of depression with any cogent field notes."
His essay drew an enormous outpouring from people whose lives had been touched by the terrible illness. Now Alexandra, herself a writer, tells what it was like to grow up in a household defined not only by her father's outsize talent, but also by his monumental self-absorpt... Read Full Story
"Leaving van Gogh" written by Carol Wallace
23 Apr 2011 04:55:42
The intriguing novel "Leaving van Gogh" imagines what the good doctor might say in looking back on the two months in 1890 during which he tried — and failed — to rescue the painter Vincent van Gogh from madness.
Author Carol Wallace's sympathetic portrait of van Gogh is secondary to that of Gachet himself, a man of science who marvels at the artistic talent of his 37-year-old patient. He treats van Gogh's mental illness with modern methods, at least for the late 19th century. His chief tool is a... Read Full Story
Kitty Kelley from Elizabeth Taylor
16 Apr 2011 05:10:57
Simon & Schuster says Kelley's unauthorized "Elizabeth Taylor: The Last Star" was reissued Friday as an e-book.
The new release includes an afterword that concludes with Taylor's death last month. Kelley will donate proceeds to amfAR, the AIDS research organization Taylor helped found. The Taylor biography first came out in 1981.
Kelley is known for gossipy and unflattering takes on the famous, include Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan. Her afterword notes Taylor's drug and alcohol problems and her... Read Full Story
Karl Rodney and the Caribbean
16 Apr 2011 05:09:33
Karl Rodney, the publisher of Carib News, admitted that he failed to list a foreign country and a private company as providing round-trip airfare, hotels and meals for members of Congress to attend an annual Caribbean multinational business conference. Rodney entered his plea in U.S. District Court in Washington.
On his financial disclosure form for 2007, Rangel, D-N.Y., said he attended the Carib News Foundation event in Antigua and Barbuda from Nov. 8-11. According to court papers in the case,... Read Full Story
The interview with Mohammed Moulessehoul
16 Apr 2011 05:07:43
The author of acclaimed novels including "The Attack", and the "Swallow of Kabul" spoke to Reuters about politics, society, and how the Arab world is perceived in the West. The following are edited excerpts from his answers:
Q: Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika spoke about the necessity to launch political reforms, but he did not elaborate. What is your comment?
A: After 30 years of bad habits, muddle, and empty slogans which have driven the Algerian people to doubt themselves, then to las... Read Full Story
"The Pale King"written by David Foster Wallace
15 Apr 2011 03:23:37
Most of the world's information, Wallace shows us over and over in "The Pale King", is not really worth knowing. Wallace was still writing "The Pale King" when he killed himself in 2008, leaving an unanswered question for both his many devoted readers and, apparently, himself: How does one live a meaningful life when so much of what surrounds us all seems so meaningless?
"The Pale King" doesn't really hold together as a novel, with no conventional resolution and plenty of characters and tangents... Read Full Story
The Nobel Prize discussion become more and more popular
15 Apr 2011 03:22:40
In 2008, the committee's then-permanent secretary, Horace Engdahl, said European writers tend to beat out American writers because American literature is overly insular. In 2009, his successor, Peter Englund, worried the prize was too "Eurocentric."
The list of the past 20 laureates includes one American — novelist Toni Morrison, in 1993 — and 11 European writers, including German novelist Gunter Grass and British playwright Harold Pinter. Some of the others selected during that time are not fro... Read Full Story
Gwyneth Paltrow will give some practical advices how to bring your love in cooking
15 Apr 2011 03:21:07
"I am just exploding with joy for her because this is something that gives her tremendous satisfaction," said Paltrow's mother, actress Blythe Danner, as she watched her daughter move about in an apron, playing host to a crowd that included A-list celebrity friends like Jay-Z, Jerry Seinfeld, Cameron Diaz and beau Alex Rodriguez, Martha Stewart and Paltrow's husband, Chris Martin of Coldplay.
It was a dinner party Monday in celebration of her new cookbook, "My Father's Daughter," sponsored by On... Read Full Story
The exhibition of Adolf Eichman
14 Apr 2011 10:11:16
Tired of farming rabbits in anonymity in Argentina after World War Two, Eichmann came forward in 1956 in a recently discovered letter, asking West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer if he could return so he could claim his place in history.
The letter, along with hundreds of other uncovered documents in German archives, forms the basis of author Bettina Stangneth's book "Eichmann vor Jerusalem" (Eichmann before Jerusalem), which will be released here on April 18.
Stangneth told Reuters she was st... Read Full Story
Today children of senior people are active writen their memours like adults
14 Apr 2011 10:09:56
It was then she thought about how their mother, Ann Dunham, would jostle her awake wherever they were — in India or New York, England or Hawaii — to head outside so they could appreciate the moon. And how grandmother and granddaughter would never meet.
Suhaila, now 6, was born a decade after Dunham died of cancer, but Soetoro-Ng has paired her and "Grandma Annie" through the moon in a picture book out this month.
The dreamily drawn book from Candlewick Press, "Ladder to the Moon," opens with lit... Read Full Story
