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...renowned for her pioneering—and controversial—research into the benefits of charter schools and school vouchers, and is often credited with employing novel methods to test whether increased competition among schools can raise student achievement...
...strength of your novels is, over and above the storylines, the psychological examination of the principal characters. But that is perhaps the most difficult aspect of a novel to transfer to film successfully. Was that something that you struggled with in any of the film or TV versions of your works and do you ever write your novels with screen adaptability in mind? -Dan Montgomery, McLean, VirginiaNo I never do. It doesn't really arise. I generally sat back and let other writers do the screenplays of my novels. The process is often long, repetitive and frustrating. I feel...
...have just been reading a book about Arab culture. Another book about a young man who got drawn into Islamist groups in his late teens. I am reading a book about the peculiarly English nature of evolutionary theory. I just read a long story by Edgar Allen Poe. A novel by a friend of mine called John Preston called, The Dig, which I think is very fine. I am fairly omnivorous I guess. Hmm? what is by the bedside? I am re-reading Christopher Hitchen's book on God, because I am going to be on stage talking...
...enjoy more dealing with your imaginary characters or dealing with people in reality? Do you ever feel imprisoned by your own imagination? -Ju Huang, Stamford, Conn.I prefer the real. The representation of characters in novel is but a thin a slice of what a real person is. It is a kind of trick with smoke and mirrors I can leave my imagination behind when I stand up from my desk...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is Time.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down...