An author in search of character or plot may look to dreams, a scotch, or a clerk at the drugstore to stir the muse. The origins of literature’s most enduring characters, from Holly Golightly to Jay Gatsby.
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Andre Bernard, Vice President and Publisher of Harcourt Brace, author of “Madame Bovary, C’est Moi And Other Excursions into the Origins of Famous Literary Characters “
The women behind much of the word economy. We look inside the lives of China’s factory girls.
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Global financial panic, and the rough road back, in politics and pocketbooks. Our news roundtable goes behind the headlines.
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Candace Bushnell — “Sex and the City” author and chronicler of New York money — on life in the big city when it’s all coming down.
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We’ll talk with the top advisors to Obama and McCain on the number one issue in the world — the economy, and how to save it.
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