Who said American lives have no second acts?

Country singer and mystery author Kinky Friedman is running for governor of Texas, taking the opportunity to poke fun at the process (his slogan: "Why the hell not?"). But he's also serious.

A little to the east, author Anne Rice is writing an apparently straight-faced book about Jesus's early years. The author's note quoted in that article is truly weird. If she's serious, this book might well be placed on the same shelf as Mark Twain's unreadable hagiography of Joan of Arc.

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