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While some 120 insurance companies offer LTC, the top 10 to 12 companies, which include John Hancock, Conseco and GE Capital, write 80% of the policies. "The policies have moved away from the dreaded nursing home toward community-based care," says Timothy Otto, president of M and O Marketing, an insurance brokerage in Dearborn, Mich. "What most people want is to stay at home...
Then in 1990, my play Elliot Loves, which I thought was my best play to date, got a miserable reception. So I stopped writing for the theater because everyone was so mean to me. And besides, I was getting tired of being a pro bono playwright. I backed into writing children's books. An illustrator friend asked me to write the story for an idea he had in mind. Then, just as I was getting hot on it, he fired me. He'd decided to write it himself. So, out of spite, I wrote my own book, thinking, "My book...
...defining incident in Ellroy's life was the murder of his mother when he was 10 years old, an event that has appeared in several of his books. In 1996 Ellroy took time off from his fiction to write My Dark Places, a factual account of his attempt to find his mother's killer 38 years after the fact. He hired a detective and reinvestigated thousands of old leads. They did not find the killer, but Ellroy is not disappointed. "I suspect part of the whole dynamic of Jean Hilliker Ellroy and me is that I'm not going...
...journey into his mother's past made him more reflective. His instinct now, he says, is to write more "explicative books. My characters are getting older, thinking more about what it all means. I won't go back to writing crime novels." He is already planning his next novel, which will continue the politics-as-crime theme through Nixon and the Vietnam War and up to Watergate. He hopes to have it finished in 2 1/2 years, completing what he calls "the Underworld U.S.A." trilogy. He also has a book in mind about Warren Harding's presidency and "the rumors...
...meantime, Sutter must endure and write up this Talcott festival for his Internet employer of the moment: "A bloodless edit will follow...and one day an electronic burp with his byline will float up into the Web morass, a little bubble of content he will never...