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SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL How does an author learn to write convincing sex scenes? If she's a romance writer, she can attend a sex-writing class at the Romance Writers of America's annual convention. But what can an aspiring Philip Roth do? Ben Schrank, the author of "Consent" (Random House: March) says that the key to writing persuasive sex scenes is "learning what innuendo means, and knowing what to cut out. Readers will fill in the more provocative details." Schrank, 32, should know...
...Consent," the two main characters, Mike Zabusky and Katherine Staresina, are so drawn to each other at a party that they have "a sexual collision" against a bathroom wall within two hours of meeting each other. Are the sex scenes in his novel taken from Schrank's own life? The author smiles coyly. "After I've revised them a thousand times, I don't know what's true and what...
...Schrank's debut novel, Miracle Man (William Morrow; 290 pages; $13), is a brilliantly observed story about the desire to live in an egalitarian world. The protagonist, Martin Kelly Minter, is a white middle-class son of hippie schoolteachers who finds himself increasingly troubled by the socioeconomic inequality that he sees all around him. He also happens to be a kleptomaniac. Kelly's crusade to redistribute the world's wealth begins when he drops out of Vassar, moves into an illegal sublet in Spanish Harlem and takes a job with the Miracle Moving company, which specializes in relocating rich clients...
...Schrank, who was himself a moving man as well as a teacher in Harlem, creates a protagonist who, despite his moral shortcomings, remains an affable presence. Imbued with streetwise passion, Schrank's characters expose a frustrated fringe society that simply wants to feel comfortable...
...fast now, I sometimes feel like a gunfighter dodging bullets." In business especially, the world financial markets almost never close, so why should the heavy little eyes of an ambitious baby banker? "There is now a new supercomputer that operates at a trillionth of a second," says Robert Schrank, a management consultant in New York City. "What's a trillionth of a second? Time is being eaten up by all these new inventions. Even leisure is done on schedule. Golfing is done on schedule. My son is on the run all the time. I ask him, 'Are you having...