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...Secret History, about a murder by a clique of college intellectuals, she won rave reviews, media adulation and a welcome-wagon of advance and movie-rights money. Then she withdrew to complete a novel that was to be finished in a few years, then a few more years. The lit-world gossips nattered: Was she a one-hit wonder? In hiding? Sophomore-slumped...
From there, local volunteers drove them in small groups to do a “lit drop...
...plan to turn it into a free economic zone designed to lure investors, were struck by the contrast with the neighboring Chinese city of Dandong. Dandong at night is a blaze of lights; across the river, Shinuiju is in near-total darkness. Apartment blocks in Pyongyang are lit at night these days, but there are few lights outdoors - except, of course, those illuminating the gigantic statue of the "Great Leader...
Enter, after a short intermission, one of contemporary rock music’s most soulful and intelligent singer/songwriters. Adams’ posture was delicate as he skirted the stage, fingering his newly-cut hair. He lit a cigarette, drew slowly and deliberately, sipped wine from a plastic cup and finally sat, guitar in hand, to sketch the opening measures of “Oh My Sweet Carolina.” The crowd responded, grateful, but Adams abridged the song: “Don’t do that,” he gestured at the applause, “that...
...eyes lit up,” Brogan later recalls. “She said something like, ‘Wow, that’s amazing...you must be smarter than anyone here...