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Talk about multitasking. Joshua Spanogle, 35, is going to Stanford Medical School and writing thrillers at the same time. His gripping debut novel, Isolation Ward (Delacorte), features Dr. Nathaniel McCormick, a young investigator from the Centers for Disease Control, who is desperate to stop a frightening new epidemic in Baltimore before it spreads. Is it terrorism? Is it treachery? Galley Girl caught Spanogle, not surprisingly, in the Stanford library...
...some research, either clinical research or basic science research. So I took a year to do some basic science research and orthopedic surgery. The second year, the reason I'm graduating in six instead of five with most of my classmates, is that I'm writing a second novel. The first one was really kind of crammed in around the corners of my studies and then my lab work. The second one I needed to take this chunk of time to work...
...managed to write a novel and go through medical school...
Advocates of bringing porn into the classroom insist that studying porn without watching it misses the point. Kipnis screens Saló or 120 Days of Sodom, by the Italian avant-garde filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini, in her obscenity class. The film, updated from the novel by the Marquis de Sade, is set in fascist Italy and depicts a tribunal of powerful men and their sexual torture of teenagers. She says students who had previously espoused staunchly liberal views about freedom of expression often find themselves disgusted and horrified by what they see. "University students are often too cool...
Gilberto Gil, the versatile master of rhythm and jazz, who is backing up his artistic message by becoming Brazil's Minister of Culture; his countryman Caetano Veloso, whose breathtaking range of musicianship makes him a global treasure; and my countryman Jorge Franco, author of the Faulknerian novel Rosario Tijeras, the inspiration for one of my songs...