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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Curtis Sittenfeld

Curtis Sittenfeld stories: 3 news summaries
OPINION

 'Laura Bush'
 Novelist Falls
 for Michelle 

Candidate's 'believable' wife 'lives in the same world we do'

Sep 28, 08 3:36 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

OPINION

 Wife Shouldn't Worry
 Laura Bush: Dowd 

First lady is sympathetic character in controversial novel

Jul 9, 08 1:11 PM CDT
(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—... More »

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

GLOSSIES

'Laura Bush'
No Conservative
in New Novel

Character has an abortion, describes sex with future president

Jul 7, 08 4:44 PM CDT
(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... More »

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abortion • lesbians • Laura Bush • sex • literature • Curtis Sittenfeld

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