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Carolyne Roehm: Design & Style: A Constant Thread - Carolyne Roehm is 67 years old. This is not possible. She looks exactly as she did when I met her in 1986. Her face seems unlifted and unlined, her weight is a
Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge - DISCLOSURE: In the mid-1970s, before “Star Wars” put her in a more stellar orbit, Carrie Fisher and I were friends. At one point, she wanted to audit my screenwriting course
Cassandra at the Wedding - COSTCO'S BOOK OF THE MONTH: Pennie Clark Ianniciello, Costco's book buyer, has chosen "The Wedding Thief" by Mary Simses, as her pick of the month for July. In Costco Connection,
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - Dwight Garner, the brilliant and trustworthy New York Times book critic, is not known to gush, and yet this is the first paragraph of a recent review: “’Caste’ is an
Cat & Dog Page-A-Day Gallery Calendars - SHOPPING ON AMAZON: The business model of this site is Amazon. You start here, buy something there, Butler gets a commission. And not just on the item reviewed. Anything you
Chants of a Lifetime: Searching for a Heart of Gold - I don’t lose books. I lost this one. A few years ago, I bought “Chants of a Lifetime” in Los Angeles, got on the plane, read a few chapters, put it aside
Charles Gwathmey (1938-2009) - A man I love died the other day, and like a lot of people who knew Charles Gwathmey, I’m having trouble using the past tense about him. Charles was 71
Charles Gwathmey: ‘Vision is the art of seeing things invisible’ - A funeral and a memorial service just hours apart --- that’s an unusual day. But most of his friends were out of town when Dominick Dunne died at 83, so
Charles Reich (1928 – 2019): The Greening of America - Charles Reich died this week. The author of "The Greening of America" got a big obituary in the New York Times, but I can assure you: he may be the
Charlotte au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood - Guest Butler Elizabeth Benedict is the author of five novels and The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers. She recently edited the anthology Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers
Charlotte’s Web - You all read “Charlotte’s Web” when you were 8. I didn’t. And because no one read it to me, my childhood ended without any knowledge of what seems to be
Chick Lit? Women’s Literature? Why Not Just….Literature? - A line I wrote the other day struck a nerve, and a reader responded. And not just a smart, sensitive soul. Diane Meier is a novelist with a personal story to
Childhood’s End - It's probably the greatest opening in all of science fiction. Earthlings are going about their lives when they suddenly notice movement in the sky. And there they are --- alien spaceships, miles
Childism: Confronting Prejudice Against Children - I thought I was doing a dead writer and her friend a favor. Some favor. Elisabeth Young-Bruehl --- a psychoanalyst and biographer of Hannah Arendt and Anna Freud --- had,
Chocolate and Zucchini: Daily Adventures in a Parisian Kitchen - We may like to think that French women are genetically inclined to greatness in the kitchen. Clotilde Dusoulier is proof they're not. Really, she says, food
Christina Baker Kline: A Piece of the World - Christina Baker Kline had published four novels --- literary fiction, the deadliest of categories --- when she handed “Orphan Train” to her publisher. The topic was niche: homeless children transported
Christina Baker Kline: The Exiles - Her first four novels had modest sales, so Christina Baker Kline’s publisher decided to bring out her fifth as a paperback original. Book clubs discovered it, loved it, and members
Christmas in Paris, 2002 - I worked with Ron Fried on Tina Brown's "views magazine" on CNBC for about a year and a half. I came in one afternoon a week and wrote
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: On the Way to The Gates, Central Park, New York City - Christo and Jeanne-Claude: On the Way to The Gates, Central Park, New York City by Jonathan Fineberg and Wolfgang Volz
