She's fired!
The Jackson Symphony League’s SpringLuncheon will be Thursday, April 29,2004, at the Country Club of Jackson. Chairman Leslie Dixon and her committee haveplanned an exceptional event, the highlight of which will be special guest speaker Julia Reed. Ms. Reed was born in Greenville, Mississippi and since 1987 has been senior writer at “VOGUE” magazine where her profile subjects have ranged from George Bush, Bill Clinton, and CondoleezaRice to Robert DeNiro, Barbara Walters, and Barbra Streisand. She is also a contributing editor at “Newsweek” and acontributor to “The New York Times Magazine” where shewrites the food column. She is a regular guest on CNBC’s “The News with Brian Williams” and MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews”. She divides her time between Manhattan and NewOrleans. Random House has just published Ms. Reed’s first book, Queen of the Turtle Derby and Other Southern Phenomena, a bevy of wise, witty, and often hilarious essays about the Southern way of life. The Wall Street Journal says, “Ms. Reed writes about Southern food, fashion, women and crime with enormous wit and charm and a vigilant eye for detail.” Ms. Reed’s book will be available at the luncheon where she will sign copies.