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...wrote about four chapters,” she says. Inspiration was never really the problem—Pottinger says she always knew she could write, she just needed to find the time. She found the time sooner than most of her publishing peers—she had an agent and editor in her early twenties—and this early success is part of her appeal. “I have a lot of teenage readers and readers in their early twenties. My writing style appeals to them. And if they look at my picture on the back...
...Barry's hero, Hack Nike (see how it works?), is a low-level cubicle dweller who gets embroiled in a scheme to stage a series of killings as a promotional gimmick to sell sneakers: it's murder as advertising. Out to stop the plan is Jennifer Government, a beleaguered agent of a Federal Government so cash strapped that she has to hit up the victims for money before she can fight crime...
...goes in the world's only remaining boomtown. Shanghai is reveling in a Gatsbyesque race to spend, spend, spend, and I, like many Shanghai residents who can't quite keep up with the Wangs, am finding myself quickly priced out of the market. When I told our real estate agent our housing budget?more than an average Shanghainese's yearly income?she shook her head and said it might be tough to find something suitable for such a paltry sum. Nevertheless, she offered up some extravagant options, hopeful that extra cash would somehow materialize in our pockets...
...these swank digs, it's hard to remember that this is the same city where 15 years ago the richest folks found delight simply in a new icebox. The pace of change in Shanghai (double-digit growth rates for the past decade) is so rapid that my real estate agent had upgraded her Nokia cell phone between our first and second meetings?the third mobile she'd got in as many months. Sure, most people aren't living in the ch?teaus of Shanghai, but incomes have increased so fast that 60% of the city's households now own their...
...find a new home. We decided to downgrade from a house to an apartment, but even that didn't help much. An almost-done deal fell through because a South Korean diplomat as well as a banker at Standard Chartered suddenly outbid us by at least $1,000?the agent delicately informed me that we were "too small potatoes" to be pinning our hopes on such a nice apartment. Another potential flat, which had cost $3,000 last June, was listed at $4,500 when I visited it. By the time I'd got home, the agent called to announce...