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...didn't like his book. "Say something nice about it or I'll hunt you down and kill you," he said, and then giggled nervously. The 51-year-old rock musician and frontman for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds was referring to his second novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, a sordid tale about a sex-crazed, drug-addled, adulterous traveling salesman and the 9-year-old son with whose care he suddenly finds himself charged. Cave discussed his music, the gold statue he wanted to erect in his hometown and, of course, his new novel - which is very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Musician and Author Nick Cave | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

...named the book The Death of Bunny Munro, which sort of gives away the ending. Why remove the element of surprise? It does take the element of surprise out but it ramps up the tension quite a lot. We know he's going to die, but we don't know how he's going to do it. He's constantly in life-threatening situations, so when he does die it's kind of a shock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Musician and Author Nick Cave | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

Your last album with the Bad Seeds, Dig Lazarus Dig!!! was about Lazarus being raised from the dead. And now this book also focuses on death. What about the experience of death interests you? Lazarus was sort of comic, I guess. He was brought back to life but he had no say in it. With Bunny, I didn't want to write a novel that's a normal redemptive story. I don't buy the whole redemption thing anyway. We're human and we are capable of love and destruction. These things are a part of what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Musician and Author Nick Cave | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

State administrators say the facilities want to continue justifying the need for detention to retain upstate jobs. But unions point to the case of Renee Greco, a 24-year-old supervisor in a halfway house in western New York, who was clubbed to death while playing cards with some of her charges. Her assailants, ages 17 and 18, have pleaded not guilty to charges of second- and first-degree murder, respectively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Reforming the Juvenile-Justice System Is So Hard | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

Much work has to be done. Hatoyama has yet to make his first major policy speech, addressing his vision of Japan, which, says Robert Dujarric, director of the Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies at Temple University's Japan Campus, needs to deal with "the demographic death spiral - low fertility, underemployment of female professionals, low immigration. That's the real life-and-death question for the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's New Prime Minister — and New Shadow Shogun | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

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