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May 14, 2021, 2:09 p.m. ET
Representative Elise Stefanik of New York, who was elected on Friday to the No. 3 position in the House G.O.P.Credit.Damon Winter/The New York Times
By Elizabeth Benjamin
Ms. Benjamin is a former reporter who covered New York politics and government for two decades.
The rapid rise of Representative Elise Stefanik of New York to the post of chief pro-Trump messenger in the ongoing battle for the soul of the G.O.P. has sparked a flurry of media reports about how a supposed onetime moderate Republican metamorphosed into a full-fledged fire-breathing far-right conservative.
En Route to the Best-Seller List, Oprah Was His Co-Pilot
In their new book, “What Happened to You?,” Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey write about what she describes in the introduction as “the unique adaptability of our miraculous brains.”Credit.via Flatiron Books
By Elisabeth Egan
May 13, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
SUPER SOUL What’s it like to write a book with Oprah Winfrey? Is she the kind of collaborator we all remember from group projects in high school the deadbeat who goes dark until the bulk of the work is completed? Or is the queen of incisive interviews (and basically everything) a latter-day Tracy Flick, getting it all done herself without input from anyone else?
Joe Murphy remembers the moment he first realised that
Younger, the fluffy Darren Star-produced US TV series he started working on in 2016, had become a cult hit.
The Aussie TV writer - originally from Tangambalanga, a town of about 450 people just outside Wodonga in northeast Victoria - joined the show in its third season when âit was still sort of the little show that couldâ.
Aussie screenwriter Joe Murphy on the set of Younger.
âI was always trying to convince people, âYouâve got to watch this show, itâs really fun, like
Sex and the City-liteâ,â he says from his office in LAâs Beverly Grove. But it was a return visit to Australia for a friendâs wedding that proved the showâs unlikely reach.