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THE WRITING LIFE: BIOGRAPHY AS RORSCHACH TEST
November 26, 2012

Rorschach Inkblot No. 9 (Wikipedia)
Usually on Sunday morning I open the New York Times and go straight to the Styles section, where the "Social IQs" column is. "Social IQs" gives advice to the socially perplexed, and reading it gives me hope of becoming the polite, perspicacious, socially intelligent human being I imagine its author, Philip Galanes, to be. Yesterday, however, Read More
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• Stacy Schiff on the Perfect Biography Subject
October 1, 2011

Stacy Schiff
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• Looking for a subject? Read CLEOPATRA biographer Stacy Schiff on the perfect biography subject. Her next project: the Salem witch trials. Wow. Talk about a tough bunch to interview.