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...simple as it sounds. Ardai needed writers who could hammer out tales in the style of that less lyrical era, crude but effective books that dispensed with stylistic foofaraw and hooked the reader from the get-go with pure plot. (Sample first line, from David Dodge's The Last Match: "The guy who was waiting for me in my room merely wanted to blow my head off, that's all.") "Pulp fiction was written at high velocity by people who had a bill collector waiting at the door," Ardai says. So far, he has signed up some A-list talent...
...United States create hardly a breeze in the rarified air at the top of the Ivory Tower. Unlike the days of our parents’ generation, when a combination of American foreign policy and bad grades could send an Eliot resident off to Vietnam, in the post-draft era most Harvard students can be assured of a comfortable existence after graduation regardless of major political developments...
...Fifth Avenue is a novel set in One Fifth Avenue, "a magnificent building constructed of a pale grey sandstone in the classic lines of the deco era." There was a time when writers and artists could live there--a few still do--but now the apartments start at $1 million-plus, making it strictly the domain of the wealthy. ("Money wants what it can't buy," Bushnell writes, "class and talent.") The friction between those two worlds--rich and poor, crass and cultured, New York present and New York past--gives the book its heat. Well, that...
...point, featuring an encounter between fictional President Josiah Bartlet of “The West Wing” and Barack Obama. The take-away message from this fresh batch of political onanism, in which Obama begs Bartlet for advice? “GET ANGRIER!”Reformed Reagan-era conservative Arianna Huffington takes Bartlet’s advice to heart in “Right is Wrong.” In her disdain for namby-pamby liberalism, Huffington almost dismisses Democrats’ recapture of the House and Senate in ’06 as happenstance, chanced upon because...
...with the destruction of the Twin Towers by al-Qaeda terrorists. It is ending with the devastation of the Twin Trillions - the money spent on a foolish war in Iraq ($653 billion and counting) and on the bailout of a financial industry gone hog wild during the Reagan-initiated Era of Deregulation. Bush has revived Big Government in the worst possible way: the middle class will pay, in perpetuity, for the sins of the powerful...