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...self-assessment, Spillane - whose The Long Wait sold three million copies in a single week, and whose worldwide total is in the 140-million range - was also far more blue-collar than tweed-jacket. He wasn't an "author," he said, rejecting the mustiness of the word; he was a "writer." He did his job for money, not recognition by his peers (which came his way late in life). He claimed he banged out I, the Jury in nine days, to which the literary establishment would say, "Really? It took that long?" And he claimed he didn't have "readers...
...past few years, and Viswanathan’s actions did little to improve the genre’s reputation. But McCafferty, as the Village Voice pointed out in May, should not suffer for Viswanathan’s sins; it may be easy to deride the author who inspired the bulk of Viswanathan’s plagiarism, but it’s not fair to do so without reading her work...
...documents were seized as part of an investigation into the June 10 suicides of three detainees, according to papers filed by the government in federal court. But David Remes, author of one of the detainee filings, says that the rules set up to guide the attorney-client relationship at Guantanamo require that the government notify the court before any such seizures occur. No such notification was given until almost a month after the papers were taken. The government alleges that prisoners had planned the suicides in secret, using confidential lawyer-client papers to pass handwritten notes...
...because the rest of India is booming. The city's dynamism, as you reported, owes nothing to the inept and corrupt local government. Business is succeeding because the people, especially the local workforce, have taken their fortunes into their own hands. Arabinda Pradhan New Delhi In "My lost world," author Aravind Adiga noted the uncertainty he feels now when looking at the profoundly changed city of Mangalore, his provincial hometown. I feel the same way when I visit the city. Why do people who get out of small towns like that not want to go back? I asked...
...This is what happens when possessions take the place of emotions." --WARREN ADLER, author of The War of the Roses--about a rich couple's deadly divorce--on the doctor who allegedly leveled his New York City home last week to keep his soon-to-be ex-wife from getting the house...