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Article: Comic's PC fairy tales find serious success
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 12, 1994
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James Finn Garner has that slightly dazed, lottery-winner look of
the regular guy who suddenly scores a huge success against all odds
and expectations. He sat one afternoon last week, dressed in jeans
and a many-colored casual shirt, in the lounge at Rocco's in Park
Square, trying to be serious about what has happened to him.
It wasn't easy to be serious about it. Garner, 34, is the
author of "Politically Correct Bedtime Stories," one of the nuttiest
and oddest best sellers in recent memory.
Published by Macmillan in May, the book took off like Wile E.
Coyote on his rocket skateboard. It has been on The New York Times
best-seller list for three months -- No. 4 this week, also No. 4 on
the ...