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...years into his job as a features writer at a South Florida daily newspaper, J.C. Hutchins left the newsroom to follow his dream: writing a novel. Thirteen hundred pages later, Hutchins finished 7th Son, a thriller about human cloning. Then, reality set in: no one would publish it. But Hutchins has found a way around the first-time writer's heartbreak - and he is now part of a technological wave that may carry writers into a next age of publishing...
...soldier in the People's Liberation Army during China's Cultural Revolution, before moving to the U.S. on a scholarship and, eventually, winning the National Book Award for his novel of a lovelorn Chinese army officer, Waiting. In his nonfiction debut, The Writer as Migrant, Ha Jin explores attempts by transplanted writers - among them Conrad, Nabokov and Beckett - to find connections between their adopted homes and native lands...
...slag heap to the top of the Taj Mahal--and because it whirls through its rags-to-riches tale with a speed and energy that would put a Hollywood action film to shame. For these qualities, you can thank Simon Beaufoy, who wrote the script from Vikas Swarup's novel Q&A, and director Danny Boyle. Eleven years ago, Beaufoy was Oscar-nominated for another screenplay about underdogs going public, The Full Monty. Boyle has often dealt with the plight of the working-class young, notably in Trainspotting and Millions. Both men know how to mine poor folks in parlous...
Reading the Swarup novel, Beaufoy wanted to tweak the story from poor boy wins big to Everyman needs a girl. "And once I'd decided on this search for a lost love," he says, "I had to rework all the other stories. The structure is the same, but the questions [asked by the game-show host] are different." Beaufoy made four trips to India over 18 months "to get a completely fresh look at India. I spent a long time in the Juhu slum in Mumbai. I was trained as a documentary director, and I just went back to doing...
...What may end up being novel about the California jobless rate is how quickly it might be reversed by the capital, which will be injected into the economy by the new federal stimulus package. This state may end up being a sign of things to come. The foreclosure rate in California is one of the highest in the nation. More than 236,000 homes or 2.8% of California's housing stock foreclosed in 2008, helping to drive down home prices by 42% from December 2007 to last month, according to Bloomberg. In addition, the state government is projected...