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Dates: during 2000-2009
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This is a very racy novel! I'm curious why you decided to write it. Well, Susan Sontag said something which has always fascinated me. She said that her novels don't exist as ideas in her head. They exist only as they are written. I was just ready to write this book. The gun sort of went off and it fell on the page, almost as if I was channeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gloria Vanderbilt's Erotic New Novel | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

What did your son think about it? Well, Anderson was just amazing. He said that the seven most horrifying words you can hear from a mother are, "I'm going to write an erotic novel." But he's fine with it, and of course I gave it to him before I even sent it off.(Read a 1934 TIME story about the Vanderbilts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gloria Vanderbilt's Erotic New Novel | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

...should be gone for good. The company says it's working to make this happen, although setting your Twitter profile to private fixes the issue. For now, it's worth remembering the old adage: If you don't want someone to read it, it's better not to write it - or tweet it - in the first place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tweleted: Making Mischief on Twitter | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

...many years, McCourt tried and failed to write about his childhood. The family talent for storytelling kept him alive in the classroom, but he couldn't get the words down on paper. He kept company in bars with writers like Pete Hamill and Jimmy Breslin, but his own voice stubbornly refused to emerge. The psychological weight of his past may have weighed him down. It also took a toll on his personal life; first one, then a second marriage ended in divorce. (He was married a third time, happily and permanently, in 1994.) He left the Catholic Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frank McCourt, Author of Angela's Ashes, Dies | 7/19/2009 | See Source »

...left Newsday in 2005 and now write your column online. Do you think there's a viable future for investigative reporting on the Internet? I think, ironically, I'm having more of an influence now than I ever had at Newsday. There are so many disaffected people who want an outlet, and the mainstream media is not doing the job that it should be doing. I could not have succeeded without the Internet, without access to all that information or without people being able to contact me so easily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hidden Side of the NYPD | 7/17/2009 | See Source »

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