WILL “ANGLE AT THE FENCE “GAIN WORLD WIDE POPULARITY AS A NEW BOOK OF THIS YEAR?”
Fence posts should always be made of a weather-resistant wood, such as cedar, redwood, or pressure-treated pine. Just as important, the post tops should be cut at an angle of at least 30 degrees to shed water. Otherwise, water soaks into the porous end grain, swelling and splitting the wood and making it susceptible to bowing, twisting, and rot. While it’s easy enough to cut the angle by eye, measuring it lets you angle all the post tops identically. The best way: Set a sliding bevel square to the preferred angle with a protractor, hold the square against the post, and mark it. Then cut along the line with a handsaw; a reciprocating saw or chain saw is faster, but it’s less accurate. Afterward, seal the angled cuts with two coats of clear wood preservative, stain, or paint.
NEW YORK — The publisher of a disputed Holocaust memoir has canceled the book, adding the name Herman Rosenblat to an increasingly long list of literary fakers and ending with a heartbreaking crash his story _ embraced by Oprah Winfrey among others _ of meeting his future wife at a concentration camp. “I wanted to bring happiness to people,” Rosenblat said in a statement issued Saturday through his agent, Andrea Hurst. “I brought hope to a lot of people. My motivation was to make good in this world.” Rosenblat’s “Angel at the Fence” had been scheduled to come out in February, but Berkley Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), withdrew the memoir following allegations by scholars, friends and family members that his tale was untrue. “Berkley Books is canceling publication of `Angel at the Fence’ after receiving new information from Herman Rosenblat’s agent, Andrea Hurst,” the publisher said in a statement. “Berkley will demand that the author and the agent return all money that they
