Topic: Curtis Sittenfeld
I was just checking out the April 2005 issue of Allure magazine, and found a couple of great articles. There was a really great essay in this issue called, "High-School Beauty", by Curtis Sittenfeld. Sittenfeld talks about how our imperfections force us ...
Perhaps next year we really will all be taking e-readers on our hols, weightlessly loaded with as many titles as we like, so we can browse at our leisure. The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor (Viking, ?25) is the history book ...
Perhaps next year we really will all be taking e-readers on our hols, weightlessly loaded with as many titles as we like, so we can browse at our leisure. The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor (Viking, ?25) is the history book ...
The Boston Marathon - 26.2 grueling miles followed by 26 pints of Sam Adams. The Lazy Meadow Motel's tricked-out airstreams in the Catskills, owned by Kate Pierson of the B-52s. That the two most powerful Republicans in the Senate are stem-cell-supporting ...
Curtis Sittenfeld, author of last year's Laura Bush-inspired novel American Wife is wading into fictional Presidential doings yet again. Last night, Slate started running All Along, This Was Supposed To Happen, a serialized novella about Barack Obama's Inauguration.Reached by ...
For the past eight years, Laura Bush has maintained a perfect blend of optimism and stoicism despite her husband's steadily plunging popularity. Mrs. Bush isn't blogging her daily thoughts and feelings on the matter, though, which opens the door for ...
American WifeBy Curtis SittenfeldRandom House, 558 pages, $26With American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld has deftly crossed an extraordinarily high wire: Which could be just what Laura Bush is like.Heres the biggest difference between Alice and Laura: With this conceit, Ms. Sittenfeld has ...
Laura Bush might seem an unlikely source of inspiration for a novel. But in American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld (Prep) uses the outlines of Mrs. Bush's life to create a compelling story of a woman facing the unintended consequences of her choices-from ...