Flynn's book has sold more than 2m copies worldwide, but the anecdote she tells most proudly concerns her cousin: shortly after she read it, her normally frugal husband happened to suggest that they go on a luxury holiday; her first, fleeting thought was that he might be plotting to kill her.
When I first read it, shortly after it was published, in 2011, I found it brazen, outrageous, and the key to good satire just plausible enough to give it the bite of truth.
'The returning officer took the six candidates aside and told us the figures that he would shortly read out from the platform.
He picked up the entertainment mogul Jay-Z's memoir, "Empire State of Mind," and finished reading it shortly before Jay-Z announced his own sports management company.
A year or so later he resumed what he calls his "scribbling", and shortly after read his first blockbusters when he was given The Exorcist and The Day of the Jackal.
A man in Washington state who came to a neighbor's rescue was credited with being the first person to use the Heimlich Maneuver shortly after reading a newspaper story about it.
It was shortly after reading a lively and lacerating oral history of MTV, as well as Tom Shales's magnificent Live From New York about Saturday Night Live, that I realized that Ed and I were in a unique position to tell the Star Trek story in a new, fresh, and, most important, uncensored way that no one had before... and no one else could.
A CARAS press release sent out shortly after reads, "During the initial review following the nominee announcement, it was discovered that Kaytranada's "At All" was originally released outside of the 2016 JUNO eligibility period (September 1 , 2014 November 13 , 2015) and therefore does not qualify".
(An Amiri Baraka book from 1970 was called "It's Nation Time"; so was an incredible album Mr. Baraka made shortly thereafter, reading over free jazz).
I came to the anti-semitic poems shortly after reading The Waste Land.
