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...ve written that Leonid is your first hardboiled character. How does that work for someone who has written in the genre for as long as you have...
...different thing. One of the things about hardboiled is that the line between good and bad is blurred. Not for Easy Rawlins. But for Leonid, he's been on one side and he's trying to get to the other side, and it's not so easy once you've had a whole life in this other thing...
Inspiration is a charged word, like everything is beautiful. It sounds positive. So when you're having a character brutally murder another person, does that come from inspiration? Nooo. Some kind of convoluted notion of the world has come up, and you've recorded it. But to be inspired? 'Inspired' work really sounds awful: 'The day was beautiful. The person I'm with is beautiful. We were deeply in love. We got married. We stayed together. We never cheated...
Returning from exotic spring break locales means getting through a hard week of adjusting to the life and times of the daily Harvard routine. A lively weekend is in order if you've made it to 5 p.m. Friday and we've found at least one party, as well as quite a few shows, that promise not to disappoint...
...common humanity with his peers, normally an afterthought in the performance art of politics. He appealed to the battered sense of honor and idealism that still resided beneath their scar tissue. He was seeking not only to inspire his colleagues, but to comfort them. I don't think I've ever seen a President do that before...