Elizabeth Gilbert's enormous bestseller "Eat,Pray, Love" was created with lots of tough work and a petite bit of fairy dust — which she's elated (full of high-spirited delight) to sprinkle in your direction. Also, and James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem wants to effect the New York City subway a more pleasant place by giving it a new soundtrack. And for the writer William T. Vollmann,research isn't about spending a sedate afternoon at the library — it involves hopping trains, getting shot at, and nearly freezing to death at the North Pole.
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