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This Book is about a middle-aged man named Richard Novak who, having made a bundle and retired early, and having split from his wife and son, is now living in a state of isolation and emotional shutdown in a fancy house in Los Angeles. One day Richard suffers an...
Ryan Tindle, 21, carried that legacy to its modern-day extreme. In middle school, he started ditching class, trying to escape a tough home life by ingratiating himself with older kids who played rough. So it was little surprise when he traveled the well-worn path of the troublemaker, dropping...
While jazz emanates from every corner of the city, the two protagonists of the story—Jonah Dove, resident of Striver’s Row and minister of the Church of New Jerusalem, and the young Malcolm X (then Malcolm Little)—are engaged in a fateful...
The U.N. Security Council finally agreed Wednesday to do something about Iran's nuclear program. Tehran was given 30 days to comply with U.N. inspectors at the International Atomic Energy Agency and to suspend uranium enrichment activities or face as yet unspecified consequences. The "Presidential statement," which followed several weeks...
JS: Michael Crichton's early stuff especially, like Case of Need, which he wrote while he was in medical school, and then The Andromeda Strain, of course, were big influences. I think anybody who is writing in the genre owes a lot to Robin Cook and especially to Coma. Actually...