Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from 1946 to 1960. Checchi says he has been thinking of running for office ever since age 12. "I was raised in a household where public service was valued," he says, recalling vividly that "[President] Kennedy died when I was 15. Bobby Kennedy died on my 20th birthday." Says author Scott Turow, Checchi's undergraduate roommate at Amherst College: "Al can rub people the wrong way, but he's always had a sense of personal destiny. He's always wanted to do good. He's a great idealist...
JILL SMOLOWE is a TIME contributor and the author of An Empty Lap, recently published by Pocket Books...
...silencer, which you can easily make from common hardware. And aim for the eye sockets; a shot anywhere else in the head might leave the victim alive. Such is the wisdom of Hit Man, a step-by-step guide to succeeding in the paid-killer trade. Author Rex Feral, a pen name that's ersatz Latin for "king of the wild animals," insists that this $10 murder-for-hire manual provides a public service. Sometimes, Feral explains, a hit man is the only means of obtaining "personal justice...
...remove their gloves--and leave fingerprints--if they help themselves to snacks in the victim's refrigerator. And Kelley says the book cover's boast that Feral is a hit man and a "lethal weapon aimed at the enemy of the one who pays him" misstates the author's credentials. The real author is a female, he says, and "I'm surely convinced she's never hurt a soul...
...moral quandary posed by this story--the difficulty, given the context of the people and mores of Dismount Fort, of defining proper or humane behavior--permeates Under the Red Flag. Ha Jin is not a preachy author. He offers his characters choices that are incompatible and potentially destructive and then dispassionately records what they do next...