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Detective writer Walter Mosley loves to dig deep into his characters. He wrote 11 books featuring the Los Angeles-based gumshoe Easy Rawlins (the first of which, Devil in a Blue Dress, was made into a Denzel Washington film) before retiring him in 2007. His latest private eye, former mob crook Leonid McGill, stars in the new novel Known to Evil, the second in what Mosley hopes will be a 10-book series. Mosley spoke with TIME about why he doesn't read mystery novels, the importance of character names, and why he never benefits from inspiration...
...letter is the latest in the University’s ongoing criticism of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and raises the question of whether ROTC will be allowed to return to campus if President Barack Obama’s carries out his promise to repeal the policy...
...Terribly Happy,” Danish director Henrik Ruben Genz’s latest thriller, the residents of Skarrild, a small, despondent Danish village in southern Jutland, have discovered a foolproof way to eliminate their problems: plunge them into the mysterious town bog. As a voiceover in the film’s opening scene recounts, the bog first achieved fame when a cow, after being buried in the bog for months, reemerged and gave birth to a calf with two heads, one of a calf and the other human. The beast subsequently incited a plague of mad cow disease...
...quite used to the media trumpeting the trivial, be it Anna Nicole Smith or Chesley Sullenberger. But this latest obsession with a heretofore irrelevant and obscure White House staff position—the White House social secretary—is simply product of another vice: the delusion harbored by Washington media types that the trifling goings-on of their city matter to those who live beyond the Beltway. This media elite is easily distracted by bright, shiny objects, and the fact that anyone outside the White House has ever heard of Desiree Rogers is an indictment of the media?...
...Silk Parachute,” John McPhee’s latest anthology of essays, is already a relic. A slender addendum to McPhee’s two previous collections of personal essays and literary journalism, this book evokes a rapidly fading epoch in which compendia of previously published works (not to mention books in general) could still turn a profit. Indeed, “Silk Parachute” often feels as though it was rushed to press too quickly. The highlight of the book, “Spin Right and Shoot Left,” which examines the history...