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...with the women in Miller's lauded triptych Personal Velocity - which, like this movie, she adapted from her own book - Pippa is a woman on the verge of either a breakdown or an epiphany. The private lives of the title refer to both flashbacks to her youth (in which she's played by that stunning Gossip Girl Blake Lively) and to the odd, secretive relationship she's cautiously beginning with herself...
...spent nearly ten years traveling, researching, and amassing personal details about her family’s history in preparation for the book...
...joked that she was worried that her research would never end until her friend, who was editing a chapter of the book entitled “Beautiful Machines,” helped her focus in on the core of the story she was telling...
After all that, should 9/11 have been a surprise? There were those who saw what was coming, most notably FBI agent John O'Neill, who perished during the attack on the World Trade Center and whose story is eloquently told in Lawrence Wright's masterly book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. Time and time again O'Neill warned his superiors that al-Qaeda was readying a big strike, only to be marginalized, causing him to leave the bureau. Another prescient voice was that of Harvard professor Samuel Huntington, whose book The Clash of Civilizations...
Serwer is the managing editor of Fortune. To find more of Serwer's insights into the next decade, look for our new TIME book, Starting Over: Why the last decade was so damn rotten and why the next one will surely be better. Available at time.com/startingoverbook...