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...understand some things, but I’d like to answer her questions,” Marques says. “And then I decided that before I forget, before it’s too late, before I don’t have the energy, I wanted to write...
They said Faust advised them to write a letter about the issue, which she said she would present to the Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing body. The students said they believed that Faust’s acknowledgement that Harvard did not move quickly to divest from South Africa during Apartheid boded well for their cause...
...success of McCarthy’s work may be due to the tropes of science fiction and action rather than its literary merits, that does not diminish the power of McCarthy’s intensely human portrait of a father and son. Where Roth and many other contemporary novelists write about an ironic and dehumanizing world that leaves characters externally disconnected and spiritually enervated, McCarthy embraces humanity in all of its weakness, madness, and strength. Some people may find detailed digressions on spiritual exhaustion profound, but this reader found it merely exhausting...
...pretty critical of some death-penalty lawyers. Why? The cases that I write about are cases that I was handling five years ago, which means that the trials were 15 years ago. And 15 years ago, the quality of trial lawyers in Texas, and really all over the so-called death-penalty belt - the Southeast of the U.S. - was typically abysmal. Over the past five years, the quality of trial lawyering has gotten vastly better. There are still a handful of bad lawyers. [But] today the problem is that there aren't any resources. You can have the world...
...discover that it was where he was always meant to be. And so it was for Joe Hill. After years of getting nowhere peddling middlebrow literary fiction ("stories about divorce and children trying to figure out their parents," he calls them today), Hill began to write tales of murderers, evil spirits and giant bugs--the kinds of subject matter better associated with his father Stephen King. And like the heroes of such stories, Hill (who writes under his first and middle names) eventually discovered that sometimes you can't escape the past. Sometimes, in fact, it's best...