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...have to dig too deep to find the link between writing novels and conning people out of lots of money: both involve making stuff up. So it wasn't completely shocking when D.B.C. Pierre, the author of Vernon God Little (Canongate; 277 pages), which won the prestigious Man Booker Prize two weeks ago, rather dramatically announced that he wasn't D.B.C. Pierre at all. Turns out he's really Peter Finlay, 42, an Australian who earlier in life ran up enormous debts and bilked a close friend out of an apartment to feed his runaway drug and gambling habits (from...
...British press is playing his win as a redemption story. But does the book really make up for the long rap sheet? Vernon God Little is a black comedy about a luckless teenage loser living in Martirio, billed as the Barbecue Sauce Capital of Texas. Little's friend Jesus Navarro has just committed a horrendous Columbine-style massacre at their high school, and Little, who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, gets charged as an accessory. Little's desperate attempts to exonerate himself only wind up exposing the venal hypocrisies of the people around...
...exposed? A brand new confederacy of dunces unearthed? Americans make temptingly large targets for satire these days--what with the chronic obesity and all--but I'll be double-dog-darned if we're quite this easy to skewer. Pierre may have come clean about his past, but Vernon God Little feels like just another con. --By Lev Grossman
...Niagara River and plummeted headfirst over the 173-ft. Horseshoe Falls--becoming the first known person to survive the drop with no protection. He acknowledged that depression may have driven him to do it, but enthused, "I feel that I have reached out and touched the face of God. And he smiled...
...other stuff, the games and the "talking" and the God knows what else, it doesn't scare her. It's an urban campus, she points out, in a busy downtown neighborhood. "They don't have a street corner where all the kids can hang out. Inside the computer is their street corner." She compares it to listening to the Grateful Dead when she was growing up in the 1970s, back when rock 'n' roll was still new and computers were safely confined to the fallout shelter. After all, she argues, all teenagers of every era have something that they...