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April 10, 2010
Hip-hop goes to finishing school
hip-hop's Professor Higgins, teaches rap stars the rules of etiquette by Precious Williams
article first published in The Times
"Sometimes I've had to approach rappers during interviews, ask them to
step outside, discreetly hand them a bar of soap and a flannel and tell
them to go wash their body," says Angelo Ellerbee, founder and CEO of
Double Xxposure, the world's only finishing school for rappers.
Known
in New York as...
April 5, 2010
A brief update on my stalker
An update on an extremely disturbed woman
Seems I am not the only person the Crazy Woman I blogged about - here - has stalked via Facebook. Reports from others who've been similarly stalked and threatened by her are trickling in. I received this message from an acquaintance in the publishing industry who, it turns out, has also had the misfortune of crossing paths with my stalker:
April 3, 2010
A Cautionary Tale: Google is your friend; Facebook, not so much...
About a year ago, I was putting the finishes touches to my memoir, beginning work on my second book, and generally doing what I do....Out of the blue I received a friend request from a stranger on Facebook. Nothing especially strange about that. This would-be Facebook friend had written an autobiography and was about to self-publish it. She claimed she admired my writing and really, really wanted me to write a "blurb" (short review) she could feature on her book jacket.
I...
March 22, 2010
Health: My Life As An Ex-Vegetarian by Precious Williams
first published in the Daily Telegraph (UK)
Last week, after 12 years of strict vegetarianism, I tucked into an oozing pink slab of sirloin steak. By the time the meat reached my plate, I hadn't eaten a morsel of meat during my entire adult life. The idea of going vegetarian had hit me - literally - one morning during my first year at Oxford. On my way to a lecture, I was bashed in the face by a blood-caked dead pig that was dangling outside a butcher's shop. Already feeling hung-over...
Health: My Life As An Ex-Vegetarian
first published in the Daily Telegraph (UK)
Last week, after 12 years of strict vegetarianism, I tucked into an oozing pink slab of sirloin steak. By the time the meat reached my plate, I hadn't eaten a morsel of meat during my entire adult life. The idea of going vegetarian had hit me - literally - one morning during my first year at Oxford. On my way to a lecture, I was bashed in the face by a blood-caked dead pig that was dangling outside a butcher's shop. Already feeling hung-over and...
March 21, 2010
An Education: Ivy League Hookers
by Precious Williams
first published in Glamour magazine
WHEN I meet Celine she is wearing a floor-length Marc Jacobs coat over
Chloe jeans, a TSE Cashmere sweater and Jimmy Choo spike heels. She
jokingly calls herself a "label whore." In reality she is also a whore in the more traditional sense of the word.
Celine, a 20 year-old Economics undergraduate at New York University
(NYU) has never had a pimp and she never walks the streets (she takes
cabs everywhere instead) – but she is a...
INTERVIEW: Jhumpa Lahiri
Novelist Jhumpa Lahiri is the sort of woman who makes being brilliant and accomplished appear effortless. At 36, and with just two books behind her, Lahiri is already one of the most celebrated American authors of her generation. Her first book, a short story collection called Interpreter of Maladies, earned her the coveted Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2OOO.
The Pulitzer, the American equivalent of the Booker prize, represents the pinnacle of literary success. Previous recipients of the...
INTERVIEW: Jhumpa Lahiri
Novelist Jhumpa Lahiri is the sort of woman who makes being brilliant and accomplished appear effortless. At 36, and with just two books behind her, Lahiri is already one of the most celebrated American authors of her generation. Her first book, a short story collection called 'Interpreter of Maladies', earned her the coveted Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2OOO.
The Pulitzer, the American equivalent of the Booker prize, represents the pinnacle of literary success. Previous recipients of the...
NEWS: 'Invisible' children
The British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) launched its second annual private fostering awareness week in February.
Private fostering is defined in the Children Act 1989 as a child under the age of 16 (or under 18 if disabled) who is cared for, and provided with accommodation, for 28 days or more by someone other than a parent or guardian, or close relative.
I attended a BAAF-sponsored private fostering reception earlier this week at the House of Lords and had the opportunity...
