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  • Memo to Alice Hoffman: Next Time, Just Wear Body Armor...

    June 30, 2009

    • Writing is a masochistic art: essentially, you put the (ouch!) most sensitive parts of your anatomy on an anvil... and hand out hammers. It's a risky business, indeed.Alice Hoffman recently felt the sledge-hammer strokes --in, we're told, a "mildly negative review"-- and decided to swing back... by asking her legions of fans to take up the pitchforks and torches. (See news story ...