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...least for a while, that the most important thing in their lives is not a Powerpuff Girls movie, a pro-wrestling action figure or Britney. It's a book. "Our daughter Sophie got so obsessed with Harry Potter," Chabon recalls. "I said to myself, 'I want something that I write to mean that much to her.' Your kids are always saying to you, 'Daddy, when are you gonna write a book that I can read?' You always have a sense that you're letting them down by writing these stories about people with pot habits who cheat on their wives...
...Asymmetrical Warfare Theory, a book published two years ago by three officers from the Nanjing Military Region which is tasked with attacking Taiwan, and bears a stamp reading "internal military distribution." The authors critique U.S. actions in Yugoslavia and Africa and draw disturbing lessons. For one thing, they write, the U.S. wouldn't have dared launch its long-distance strikes against Serbia if Belgrade had possessed "the ability to take the war into the enemy's territory"?as China can do with missiles that can hit U.S. bases in Japan. And in Somalia, where a warlord's ragtag militia killed...
...TIME: Why did you write this book? Zhang: After I'd made it to America, I became very ill. The doctor diagnosed me with cancer. I felt I should get this story written down as something to leave behind for my daughter. After her father is dead, how else would she know what he did at Tiananmen Square?how else would she know why we went there ... I was in the hospital for a year in the U.S. and a second year in Taiwan, and it was during this time that I wrote the book. And then I started...
...they still can't concede that I should be allowed to return. I think I will go back someday. I want to be the Billy Graham of China. And I don't think I'll have to wait too long. Maybe after I go back I can write another book: Return to China...
...Ayckbourn knows his craft inside out. So much so that he has just published a how-to book, The Crafty Art of Playmaking (Faber & Faber). "I don't exclude the muse," he says. "But just letting the inspiration take you is a very risky way to write. You need rules to motor that inspiration." Scholarly in tone, the book provides what he calls 101 "Obvious Rules" for successful writing and directing. Having laid down the law, how well do his own plays follow them? Pretty closely, on the evidence of Damsels in Distress...