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  • September 2008
    • 'Laura Bush' Novelist Falls for Michelle

      'Laura Bush' Novelist Falls for Michelle

      (Newser) - The divide between the chattering classes and the average voter comes into sharp focus when spending time with Michelle Obama, novelist Curtis Sittenfeld writes for Time. Sittenfeld's recently released American Wife is about a character clearly based on Laura Bush, who "inspires my affection and sympathy," but Obama "is completely and totally believable as a person who lives in the same world we do." More »

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      Barack Obama   Election 2008   Obama 2008   Michelle Obama   Laura Bush   Curtis Sittenfeld

  • July 2008
    • Wife Shouldn't Worry Laura Bush: Dowd

      Wife Shouldn't Worry Laura Bush: Dowd

      (Newser) - Words like "smear" and "gossip" have flown around American Wife , the novel probing the secret life of Laura Bush, but the book itself is pretty harmless, Maureen Dowd writes in the New York Times . Kings and queens have always inspired art, Dowd notes, and Wife isn’t sensationalist—it’s a well-researched attempt to get inside a guarded but intriguing figure. More »

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      White House   literature   sex   first lady   Laura Bush   book reviews   Curtis Sittenfeld

    • 'Laura Bush' No Conservative in New Novel

      'Laura Bush' No Conservative in New Novel

      (Newser) - In a new book unlikely to top the presidential reading list, author Curtis Sittenfeld fictionalizes the story of Laura Bush. Radar got a sneak peek and calls the novel "a masterful highbrow-lowbrow mash-up." The narrator is a librarian who falls in love with a future president upon seeing his crotch, undergoes an abortion, and has steamy sex with the brother of her high school sweetheart (who dies in a car crash she causes). More »

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      abortion   literature   sex   lesbians   Laura Bush   Curtis Sittenfeld

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