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When Marisol awakes these days from her bed in the Bronx, she is faced with the aftermath of apocalypse—streets where the homeless are burned, a moon that’s abandoned its orbit and the eerie absence of the world’s guardian angels. She must accept that God is indifferent and dying and that her world is quickly following in his demise...
...Wakowitz, Esq. represents the diamond-and-cocaine-encrusted rap group The Majesticons, “Lords of the Ching-Ching.” In real life, he’s known as Bronx-based MC and producer Mike Ladd, the man behind Beauty Party, the second triumphant episode in the ongoing battle between the Majesticons and their arch-nemeses the Infesticons. Beauty Party is a complete success, parodying the misplaced values of mainstream hip-hop and R&B, while reveling in the guilty pleasures of club-bumpin’ bangers, booty, Burberry and blow...
RICHARD PRICE GREW up in a housing project in the Bronx. He lives now with his wife and two teenage daughters in a fancy-funky town house off Gramercy Park in Manhattan, the kind of place you head for after you make a few million as a novelist and screenwriter. The author of Clockers and Freedomland--lush, knowing, best-selling books about struggle and redemption in the projects--has been up in that high-priced league for more than a decade. Which means that in the eyes of the world, he suffers from a variation of the Bruce Springsteen Problem...
...turns out, the hood still lives in him. It's not just the enduring music of the Bronx in his voice (or in his jumpy cadences--when he's on a tear, he's got faster delivery than FedEx). It's the nervy edge of his judgments. Try reminding him that some people think the novel is dead. "What does that mean, the novel's dead?" He gives you a funny look. "The novel will show up at your funeral...
...certainly not in most politicians' playbooks to take on the moneymen who rank among the most powerful people in the U.S.--and whom he might need one day to help finance a campaign. Spitzer, a child of privilege who attended Horace Mann School in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, N.Y., Princeton and then Harvard Law, has studied or socialized with a lot of these Wall Street types. "I have friends in the industry who think I'm doing the wrong thing," Spitzer says. James Cramer, an old friend who does market commentary for TheStreet.com and other media, is blunter...