Anna Quindlen - Excerpt from "Rise and Shine"

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Author and Newsweek columnist Anna Quindlen reads an excerpt from her novel, "Rise and Shine."

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Meghan, host of the highest-rated morning talk show, utters profanity on the air and is suddenly dealing with a halt in her career. It's the end of an era, not only for Meghan, but also for her sister Bridget, who has always lived in Meghan's long shadow. The effect of the on-air truth telling reverberates through both their lives, affecting Meghan's family, friends and fans. -- Book Passage

Anna Quindlen is the author of five novels (Blessings, Object Lessons, One True Thing, Black and Blue, Rise and Shine), and six nonfiction books (Being Perfect, Loud & Clear, A Short Guide to a Happy Life, Living Out Loud, Thinking Out Loud, How Reading Changed My Life). She has also written two children's books (The Tree That Came to Stay, Happily Ever After). Her New York Times column "Public and Private" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. Her column now appears every other week in Newsweek.

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[energeez]

@mennella2000 your a hipocrite.

[mennella2000]

@fruticetum

Besides, there are more novellist out their that you will hate, American and non American whose views overlap with hers. America is already dead thanks to radicals on both sides, far left and far right; people like you. Thanks for ruin a country that had hope; thanks for sleeping in class.

[mennella2000]

@fruticetum

What does this got to do with her talent for writing. She isn't a socialist. You think she is because her views dont agree with yours, that's democracy. It's hateful, bitter, hypocritical people like you who pigeon hole people. Anyone you dont like is a socialist. Besides, America is already a half rogue state, its finished. People who love America questions it because they have concerns. Idiots like you still think its a perfect, accepting place to be in. She ain't a socialist.

[fruticetum]

@mennella2000

She's a socialist. Her radical views hurt America. Thank goodness she retired.

[mennella2000]

@Bink45

True but not everyone can relate or sympathise with rich people these days; or knows enough about them as individuals [vise versa] to fully intergrate their emotions.

Anna is a good writer, though.

[mennella2000]

@fruticetum

Idiot. Why can't you appreciate her writing rather than judging her for her personal ideology and perspective of the world. You Nazi.

[fruticetum]

I have no respect for someone who is allegedly Catholic to be pro-abortion. I would campaign vigorously to keep her from giving the commencement at my catholic university.

[Bink45]

Anna Quindlen has a gift for writing warm, intimate, fiction that serves as a reminder of the precious ordinary moments in our lives. Who can't relate to the spoiled little rich girl pushing her poor male playmate into the pool? These are the kind of touching gestures that we treasure in later years, like the moment in F. Scott Fitzgerald's THE GREAT GATSBY when Daisy crumples up Gatsby's last letter and carries it into the bath with her before marrying the rich boy instead. Touching!