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...waiting at the door," Ardai says. So far, he has signed up some A-list talent, including Madison Smartt Bell and Stephen King. He has also done some sleuthing of his own and rediscovered long-lost novels by past masters like Dodge (who also wrote To Catch a Thief), Donald Westlake and Ed McBain. To complete the picture, Ardai recruited the legendary Robert McGinniss, who painted more than 1,000 book covers back in pulp's heyday...
...essay, “Terror and Boredom: the Dependent Mind,” Amis interweaves his analytical plot of the development and effects of radical Islamism with the personal story of a novella he had abandoned, called “The Unknown Known,” in reference to Donald Rumsfeld’s taxonomy of terrorist threats. He abandoned the satirical work not because he had lost his inspiration, he says, but rather because in the face of “total terror and total boredom, irony, even militant irony (which is what satire is), merely shrivels and dies...
...wouldn't exactly be a job the SEC is built for. "I'm not sure the SEC had the manpower or internal expertise to quickly ramp up to being able to spot highly sophisticated risk that, as far as we can tell, no one was good at spotting," says Donald Langevoort, a law professor at Georgetown University and former SEC staffer...
...always cool to watch reality TV shows. It's one thing to convey your erudition by dissecting a dark plot in The Sopranos, but what does it reveal to cop to a fascination with Donald Trump's boardroom or worse, Ryan and Tristan's love affair on The Bachelorette? For closet reality TV fans, it may finally be safe to come out of the closet. On Sunday, Sept. 21, for the first time the Emmys will award a statue to the best host of a reality TV show. To top that off, the event itself will be hosted...
Pelosi's statement provoked swift response. Washington Archbishop Donald Wuerl issued a statement calling her comments "incorrect," while her own archbishop in San Francisco characterized them as "in serious conflicts with the teachings of the Catholic Church." Pelosi and her archbishop are in the process of setting up a meeting to discuss their differences. But one prominent liberal Catholic privately called the episode "a disaster...