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...even know that they're there. I was once writing a book - I forget which one it was, it was one of the Easy Rawlins ones - I was way more than halfway through when I realized, "This is very familiar to me." I'm talking to myself, saying "Well, of course it is, you just wrote it." And then I said, "No, it's familiar for some other reason." And then I realized that I had read it in another book. I was actually repeating a plot that I had read in another book, and I had to start over...
Which is why as complex as your plots can be, it's such a delight to actually see what seems to be a fully fleshed out character. Leonid McGill goes well beyond the typical, fairly bland mystery novel protagonist. Do you try to focus on character over plot...
...Time Machine works because it doesn't just take delight in lampooning the deserving '80s, it reminds us that our iPhone-carrying, Red Bull-swilling, video game-playing culture will soon enough make a fine target as well. The times are always changing. Walking into their ski lodge circa 1986 - just as the guys are beginning to realize that they have time-traveled, clued in by indoor cigarette smoking, a "Where's the Beef" T-shirt and Ronald Reagan live on TV - Nick grabs a woman and demands, "What color is Michael Jackson?" Her well, duh response - "Black!" - sends...
...news in mid-March. A newly released report uncovered accounting tricks at Lehman Brothers, causing many to compare the defunct investment bank, which failed in September 2008, to Enron. That put the energy company, at least briefly, in the headlines again. And Lehman Brothers is in the play as well, portrayed by two actors in an overcoat as a Siamese twin. "It's a play about our society and the way it attracts greed and corruption," says Richards. "Enron was the beginning." (See a TIME cover story about Enron's fall...
While one resident voiced concerns that there would not be sufficient parking space in the neighborhood to accommodate Earthwatch’s 42 employees, Allston Civic Association President Paul Berkeley said he thought the presentation “went well...