The best poker novels are of course single-author affairs, as is the classic nonfiction narrative, A. Alvarez's "Biggest Game in Town," a brief yet comprehensive account, reissued this month, of the 1981 World Series of Poker.
When Rakoff met a couple of junior editors from the New Yorker at a rooftop party, they pumped her for all the antediluvian details, such as the fact that Rakoff spent her days pecking away on a Selectric typewriter with the fat headphones of an old Dictaphone attached to her head and that the Agency tracked every detail of its authors' affairs on oversized, specially printed pink index cards.
Classically elegant as well as cosmopolitan and erudite, the moustachioed author admitted affairs with actresses Jeanne Moreau and Jean Seberg.
"Folks that have done the mea culpa, have stepped up early and said 'I made a mistake', they are not judged as harshly," says Robert Watson, professor of American studies and author of Affairs of State: The Untold History of Presidential Love, Sex and Scandal.
Clinton and Bush II contained most of their sex scandals in the modern era, through effective optics, argues Robert Watson, author of Affairs of State, a history of the topic.
Author, "An Affair to Dismember".
In an epilogue, the author, a military affairs journalist named Tom Philpott, notes with understated amazement that the TV show "Survivor" awards $1 million to a winner who survives "3,236 days short of Jim Thompson's real-life yet little-known ordeal".
He is an author and current affairs commentator, and is noted for his expertise on United States/European Union relations, and NATO.
The author's private affairs are alluded to through a lace panel, a detail also hinting at the excesses of the French Royal family.
Mary O'Hara is a social affairs writer and author of Austerity Bites.
Inspired by the author's own affair during the 1960s with the broadcaster Joan Bakewell, "Betrayal" famously begins at the end, with a charged encounter at a London pub two years after Ms. Scott Thomas's Emma ended a seven-year affair with Jerry Douglas Henshalll), who was — is? — the best friend of Emma's husband Robert (the superb Ben Miles).
