A fourth-grade report called Cats Galore! I still have fond feelings toward the word
galore.
Everything makes me cry these days. My
No Prep Slow Cooker cookbook made me cry yesterday.
Which book is at the top of your current To-Read list?
I am about to re-read Herve Guibert s
To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, which I adore, in order to write an introduction for it.
Where do you write?
Which book made you a forever reader?
No single book. I think you either are a forever reader or you re not.
What is a snack you couldn t write without?
But her latest,
While Justice Sleeps, enters a new territory for her: It s a breakneck legal thriller. It follows Avery Keene, a law clerk in Washington, D.C. who finds herself involved in a controversial court case surrounding an American biotech company and an Indian genetics firm and a potential conspiracy that reaches to the deepest levels of the government. I am excited to step into the world of legal suspense novels and political thrillers with
While Justice Sleeps, Abrams says. The tensions of politics and power are the core of this story people scrambling for leverage and desperate to win. And having been a young lawyer myself once, I explore what it means to have authority but no real power. How do you navigate those spaces when there is work to be done and you re it?
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Mommies Dearest
Parenting the good, the bad, and the criminally insane takes center stage in two of the new year s most hyped literary debuts, both already slated for major screen adaptations.
By Leah Greenblatt
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Whatever the sins of the father, society seems to save a particular, heinous place for bad mothering. What kind of storybook monster or malignant narcissist must a woman be, to so debase her own biology? That s the infinitely messy subject a high-profile pair of new novels can only begin to explore though they find a lot of smart, discomfiting things to say along the way.
Hillary and Bill consummate their breakup
“…he lay on his side in the bed, his shoulders shaking. I spooned him, and we stayed like that through the night. Around four in the morning, we had sex.” Hillary accepts Bill s semi-decent proposal
“…we had glorious sex and when I was on top of him, sitting up, and both of us were close but not finished, I said, ‘I’ll marry you. I want to marry you so badly. I love you so much.’” Bill attempts dirty talk in a hot tub
“…it was a new pleasure to me to…sink into the warm bubbling water. The first time we did this, Bill grinned and said, ‘It’s like we’re ingredients in a soup.’”
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Barack Obama missed his deadline. The former president began writing his administration’s magnum opus shortly before leaving the Oval Office for good and delivered it almost four years later. “You have to remind yourself how to write,” he says of his third memoir (and first book in 15 years).
A Promised Land, the first of two volumes, arrived to high fanfare and even higher sales and it was worth the wait. Obama, 59, tells EW what helped him get it done, even if it was done a little differently than he thought.
The drink I need to get through a day of writing