Word: turow
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Second-year Harvard Law School student James G. Berman '90 has just released his first novel, Uninvited, following in the footsteps of fellow HLS alumnus--and author of Presumed Innocent--Scott Turow...
Across the country, 800 writers including Scott Turow, William Styron, Maya Angelou and Joyce Carol Oates will participate in the effort, which organizers hope will raise $100,000 for the hungry, Andrews said...
Barristers might take some comfort from the fact that Hollywood studios are tripping over themselves to film the best-selling novels of John Grisham and Scott Turow, both lawyers. This summer Universal Studios paid $3.75 million for Grisham's next book, which hasn't even been written yet. But this may be only a little comfort. Perhaps inspired by The Firm, a new movie is in the works once again featuring a young attorney in a large firm who discovers he is working for . . . Satan. The film's title is Devil's Advocate...
...Turow has been justifiably heralded for his plotting skills, but such praise has overshadowed his other great strength as a writer of popular entertainments. He is genuinely interested in showing what makes his characters behave the way they do. Mack remembers the late Leotis Griswell, one of the founding partners of his firm, saying, "So much of life is will." Having seen -- as a cop and a lawyer -- enough malefactors blame everyone for their misdeeds except themselves, Mack would like to believe that people are free to make choices: "Better to find options than that bondage of cause and effect...
BOOKS Scott Turow's Pleading Guilty is irresistible. A genial fictional view of a decaying Main Street. THEATER An Irish classic travels well to the Caribbean. MUSIC Perry Farrell's Porno for Pyros takes a wild ride. Steve Reich previews the opera of the 21st century...