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...ordered extra biscuits with his fried chicken at a drive-through restaurant in San Francisco was handed two bags of marijuana by the clerk at the service window. The driver gave the bags back and called the police, who arrested Carlos Ayala, 26. Authorities allege Ayala was selling pot to customers who knew the password...
...want something that I write to mean that much to her.' Your kids are always saying to you, 'Daddy, when are you gonna write a book that I can read?' You always have a sense that you're letting them down by writing these stories about people with pot habits who cheat on their wives...
Chabon's rise stalled for a while as he spent nearly five years on an ever enlarging but never completed novel. In time he put the ballooning manuscript aside and started a new novel about a pot-smoking college professor with his own long-unfinished novel. Wonder Boys was a wry 1995 book that became a witty movie last year with Michael Douglas and Robert Downey Jr. But it was Kavalier & Clay that made the superabundance of Chabon's gifts superapparent. The story of two boys who invent a Nazi-bashing comic-book hero during World...
...many writers going to kids' books these days, the Harry pot of gold may be reason enough to go. But children's literature, with its freedom from the constraints of reality, was a natural place for Chabon to turn. Tom Wolfe may think that the 19th century social novel is the only true model for fiction these days, but Chabon has other ideas. For one thing, he wants literary fiction to enjoy the liberties of fantasy genres like science fiction or horror. His next novel will be about a detective in an alternative present day in which the Jewish state...
...representing People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals handed out flyers while delegates nearby tucked into huge slabs of meat at the Butcher Shop and Grill restaurant. On the pavement outside, Solar Cookers International showed passers-by how to cook with a piece of silver cardboard and a pot. Solar cook Danielle Kahn reminisced about the first world environment conference in Rio de Janeiro 10 years ago. "That was when people really got ideas down on paper," she said. "Now it's the same ideas. We've just got to start acting upon them...