Moss's attendance added fuel to the speculation that she is in talks to design a micro-collection herself.
"Was he a pack rat?" Susan Wrynn, the then curator of the Hemingway Collection, asked herself in the New York Times, after the materials were made available.
Ms. Schaffner also points to "Daydream," a painting in which Ms. McEneaney stretches out on her couch and conjures her ideal art collection, aligning herself with Florine Stettheimer, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Horace Pippin and Ben Shahn (who also used egg tempera).
She also drove out other government workers she disliked; leased a fancy S.U.V.; hassled the city librarian about gay-friendly books in the library's collection; deafened herself to her critics; and generally bullied her way around Wasilla and later Juneau, where as governor she pressured officials to fire her former brother-in-law from the state police.
Lauren Baratz-Logsted, who edited this collection and is herself the author of several chick lit books, is actually quite a "lit" herself, having contributed an excellent essay to "Flirting with Pride and Prejudice".
The only poet listed for a debut collection, she finds herself in esteemed company, with writers such as John Burnside, a previous winner, and Louise Glück, a recent recipient of the National Book Award for poetry, also in the running.
Like so many of the characters in this collection, Dorrie often finds herself "holding her breath for no reason at all".
Miniatures were very much the rage in the 18th century, with Catherine's collection including several of herself, her grandsons and one of her principal lovers, Count Grigory Orlov, who helped her to seize power in 1762.
