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Another famous reason to write children's literature is that it gets you back in touch with your inner child. For Chabon, 39, that may not be much of an incentive, since in person he comes across like a man who already exchanges regular e-mails with his inner child and plays paintball tag with him all the time. But lately there's a big new reason for writing stories aimed at "young readers," the publishing-industry term for kids who are done with picture books but not quite ready for Tolstoy and Candace Bushnell. It's Harry Potter. Harry...
...stay-at-home mom who cracks cases while the baby naps. As Chabon answers questions, the dog barks. Waldman picks a piece of fluff off her husband's face. Sophie's school calls with the news that Sophie just threw up. This would help explain why, in order to write, Chabon stashes himself away every morning in a small cottage behind the house, with his Bakelite radio, his framed original comic-strip panels and his Roberto Clemente baseball card...
...know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.' It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give it to someone else and it doesn't turn out as it could have done, I'd feel as if I'd orphaned my baby. TIME: Why didn't you film The Magdalene Sisters in Ireland, where it's set? Mullan: It came down...
...order to write the script, the authors zig-zagged across the country for collaborative sessions...
...will work closely with director Tony Parise, who has helmed two of the last three Hasty Pudding productions. “At the same time, you get to write crazy things,” St. Clair said. “This is the cream of the crop of 4th-grade gutter humor...