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...together, I can handle anything.” The film radically changes the ending so that Mitch and Abby merely have to leave town and Mitch has to look for a more modest law job. It’s not the happy-for-Mitch, crappy-for-Abby conclusion that Grisham seems to believe is good enough for the wife...
...nature a niche industry: a book doesn’t have to appeal to all demographics—if it hits one target well enough, it can be profitable. Just as Danielle Steele doesn’t have to worry about whether men will like her book, Grisham, who wanted to get out of lawyering and start making money off his writing, didn’t have to concern himself with treating his female characters well. The film, on the other hand, with a budget of $42 million and one of the world’s biggest movie stars, could...
...defied White House attempts to isolate it or explain it away. In the space of five days last week, the story of Enron's collapse went from the merely unusual to the truly baroque, with plot elements lifted from the pages of Robert Penn Warren and John Grisham. On Tuesday FBI agents moved in when document shredding was discovered inside Enron's Houston headquarters. On Wednesday Enron CEO Kenneth Lay, until recently the national cheerleader for a frictionless new economy and a man the President nicknamed "Kenny Boy," resigned in disgrace, forced out by a board of directors...
...absorption in Big Patterns--you get a better book. The Corrections does not "solve" the mystery of family life, but it renders its mysteries with the fine filament and moral nuance they require. There are already an impressive 90,000 copies in print. While that's not quite John Grisham territory, Franzen has so far made more than a million dollars. This could be another reason why he's feeling optimistic about the literary novel these days. He may be right that serious fiction has not gone the elitist route of chamber music. But what happens to The Corrections...
...Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers. I liked the group; it fostered down-to-earth conversations in which people felt free to disagree and explain why. (I'm looking forward to a group starting in August devoted to New York Times best sellers, beginning with John Grisham's A Painted House...