Inside this month's issue of BookPage

August 2003
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FIRST PERSON
August BookPage interviews:

E. Lynn Harris: Best-selling author makes truth as compelling as fiction in an honest new memoir

As preface to his remarkably honest memoir, What Becomes of the Brokenhearted, best-selling novelist E. Lynn Harris offers this epigram: "Work like you don't need the money, dance like nobody is watching and love like you've never been hurt." Similar grand passions sweep across the pages and back through the years as the ebullient Harris recounts his former double life: by day, the quintessential "buppie," pulling down big bucks as an IBM computer salesman; by night, a closeted gay man searching for storybook love in the callous shadows of the urban club scene.

Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine: Fashion critics who'll tell you what your best friend won't

Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine have spent their careers spreading the word: style isn't something you're born with, but something you can learn. That message, which started out as a newspaper column nine years ago, evolved into a television show that was picked up by the BBC in 2000. (It's shown in the U.S. on BBC America.) Since then, their no-holds-barred fashion advice has inspired an American TV spin-off, become an international phenomenon and made celebrities out of the two brutally honest Brits.

Michael Sims gets physical with a head-to-toe tour of the human body

Meet Jon Agee

Former Texas governor Ann Richards leads the fight against osteoporosis

Mary Kay Andrews' new novel exposes the secrets and lies of suburbia

Meet Tess Gerritsen

Beatles' first drummer Pete Best remembers the band's early days

Acclaimed adult author Neil Gaiman discovers the magic of children's books

Art Spiegelman and Fraçoise Mouly discuss thier new Little Lit anthology

FEATURES

SPOTLIGHT: Start the year off right with these great Back to School books

Writing: Putting pen to paper just got easier

Looking for a summer project? Check out our books on Crafts

Parenting: The world's toughest job? Pieced of cake!

Brendan Halpin busts the myth of the "heroic teacher" in Behind the Book

Well Read: Sheri Holman serves up a slice of small-town life

Building young book lovers in our Reading section

FICTION

Reunion by Alan Lightman

A Fistful of Rain by Greg Rucka

Secret Father by James Carroll