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The people of Iceland are known for their resilient, go-it-alone character. It is the result of a forbidding geography: endowed with a rugged terrain pockmarked by geysers and volcanoes, their island stretches into the Arctic Circle, and is nearly 620 miles (1,000 km) from mainland Europe.
What do you think has been Harry's greatest misstep or failure in judgment? - Susan Bevins, Winter Park, Fla. Susan Bevins, you have asked a question no journalist has ever asked me. I think the way he treated his friends a couple of films ago was quite questionable. They're...
Your fictional characters are often very similar to you. In the private-eye story "Bored to Death," the main character's name is actually yours. How many of these characters are really you? When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my...
Tell me a little bit about your HBO show coming out in September. It takes the basic premise of the short story, which is about a writer named Jonathan Ames who puts an ad on Craigslist and becomes a private detective. It stars Jason Schwartzman playing Jonathan Ames. I mean...
The film, which follows a gay Austrian reporter's quest for fame in the U.S., was due to be released in Ukraine next week. But the commission felt that the country, with its conservative Catholic west and Orthodox east, was just not ready for Brüno and the character...