The Life and Gruesome Death of Madalyn Murray O'Hair

[Michael Eisenstadt]

The name of the book is America's Most Hated Woman
and the author is Ann Rowe, Joe and Benny's sister. 

$24.95

Monday April 4th at Book People at 7pm the author
will read from the book and sign copies.

You will remember reading her first book about Jimmy
Swaggert.

I for 1 actually met Madelyn. I was friends with Liz
Katerle a producer of tv documentaries at Channel
9 and she took me with her on a visit to Madelyn's 
office. I was introduced and shook hands but didn't 
get any real face to face time with M because she was 
having a family crisis with a husband or ex-husband 
or whatever.

She had quite a bit of presence though. Most of all
I was struck by her extremely plummy accent, that
of Maryland old families. That accent in and of 
itself can be quite a big helping hand in the world.

On a related subject I found Naipaul's latest novel
at the library Magic Seeds. He has apparently read
Sir Vidia's Shadow and if i read him aright he is
conceding in Paul Theroux's opinion (expressed
in Theroux's biography of Naipaul) that his, Naipaul's,
second wife is/was quite common. 

Naipaul gets off some superb one-liners. For 
example, "But I expected better of someone who
had married me."