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...great thing about being an obscure novelist is that it doesn't matter what you write. "I could do pretty much whatever I wanted," Michael Cunningham remembers fondly, "because nobody was likely to pay attention." That was before Cunningham wrote The Hours, his moving reimagination of the novel Mrs. Dalloway and the life of its author, Virginia Woolf. The book won a Pulitzer. Nicole Kidman got an Oscar for the movie. Just like that, Cunningham's precious obscurity was gone. "It's harder to feel the necessary degree of recklessness when people are paying attention," he says. "You have...
...book is any indication, Cunningham, 52, is still willing to fail, and in the best possible way. Specimen Days (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 308 pages) is divided into three parts, all set in New York City but each in a different era: the Industrial Revolution, the present day and-stay with me here-the far future. The three parts are written in three different literary genres and feature the same three characters. Walt Whitman also makes a cameo. Oh, and there's a 5-ft.-tall, talking alien lizard woman. Recklessness: check...
...father of the wiki is Ward Cunningham, a programmer who created the WikiWikiWeb in 1995. The name came from his honeymoon in Hawaii, where you catch the "wiki wiki" (a Hawaiian term for "quick") bus from the airport. The WikiWikiWeb was an online help manual for all kinds of software, written a little bit at a time by hundreds of people around the world. Users of any given product, Cunningham knew, were like the proverbial blind men feeling an elephant. Their knowledge was far greater than the sum of its parts-greater than even the product's creator-if only...
...citizen journalists. Wales has a for-profit website, Wikicities, where anyone can form a community. (The two largest are geeking out on the chronologies of Star Wars and Star Trek.) "It's a form of brainstorming that's bigger than one person standing at a flip chart," says Cunningham. "And there's a timelessness to it. You can do a wiki over one year or 10." And have almost as much fun as Jimmy Wales does for the whole decade. -With reporting by Coco Masters/New York
...blasted city, Ware has been through his share of harrowing silence. Yet it has not hampered his ability to put into words the explosive stories that have made our coverage of the conflict in Iraq stand out over the past two years. Last month he shared the prestigious Ed Cunningham Memorial award for best magazine reporting from abroad, presented by the Overseas Press Club in New York City. The OPC cited his courage in delineating the changing face and nature of the insurgency in Iraq. In turn, as he accepted the prize, Michael cited the courage and suffering...