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Known for dark portrayals of humankind, the acclaimed British novelist takes on a sexually frustrated marriage in his newest work, On Chesil Beach. Ian McEwan will now take your questions...
...read. You know you want something appropriately spring-y, but it can’t be too air-headed, because others on the beach will see you reading and judge you—and the book—by its cover. ON CHESIL BEACH: A NOVEL by Ian McEwan It’s beachy, but serious-style beachy. Clearly this is no frivolous tale of surf and sun: there’s some foreboding darkness in the top right corner and a solitary girl staring out at the deep blue. That’s kinda what you?...
...Before the Edwards campaign recruited Marcotte, it found another biting left-wing feminist voice in blogger Melissa McEwan of Shakespeare's Sister. He has given overall control of Internet strategy to Mathew Gross, the man who pioneered that job for Howard Dean in 2004. The efforts seemed at first to pay off: Edwards almost always wins the nonscientific but closely watched monthly straw poll organized by liberal blogger Markos Moulitsas. At the Democratic fund-raising site ActBlue, he has raised $765,000 so far, nearly three times as much as any other candidate on the website...
...What are you gonna do. Yes, it's easy give McEwan a pass because he's a writer of high literary merit - Atonement was TIME's book of the year in 2001. Yes, I feel a personal karmic debit to McEwan, because I once misspelled his name as McKewan very publicly in print and feel guilty about it (I was thinking of Ian McKellen, OK?) One could haul out the usual verities about how all great writers steal, Shakespeare included, and how in the Middle Ages plagiarism wasn't even considered a bad thing, but it's really not necessary...
...insult me. I have some pride left. At least Frey's and Viswanathan's books were lousy. For all the ink that's already been spilled over what I refuse to call a literary imbroglio, the only person who's gone on record with any public anger at McEwan is Andrews' former agent, Vanessa Holt. "I was very angry about it," she told the Daily Mail. "I felt that it was at the very least discourteous of Ian McEwan not to have been in touch with Lucilla - extremely discourteous...