It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.

The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.

Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.

Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation.

I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation.