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...horror, think of ghosts and zombies and vampires and demons. You seem to be saying, though, that those can be only the most minor elements of a great horror story. That's true. But it all depends on your angle of vision. I have friends who really want to write stories with those elements, and do, and have an immensely good time. And that's all they're doing. I'm not interested in those stories. I like them as people, but that writing doesn't strike me as inherently interesting...
...What do you think about that?Jonathan Carroll: Critics and people who run bookstores like to classify things because it makes their jobs easier: Put this in the mainstream section. This is a fantasy novel, etc. Whenever people ask what “kind” of books I write I usually smile and say “mixed salads.” In that I mean a good mixed salad has tomatoes, sliced onion, capers, lettuce...lots of different things, covered with a tasty dressing. In my work there are usually a variety of different tropes?...
Vowell decided to write about the Puritans as the idea of American exceptionalism became more prevalent in the press. Her interest was sparked particularly by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s reading of the Puritan sermon that referred to America as “a city upon the hill...
...been burned already and will be very cautious," Kroeber says, referring to previous multibillion-dollar investments in companies like Blackstone and Morgan Stanley that have plunged in value. On Oct. 6, Ping An, one of China's largest insurance companies, announced it was forced to take a $2.3 billion write-off on an investment it made in the ailing Dutch-Belgian financial giant Fortis...
Will the European plans work? There is one hopeful precedent, in Sweden, which in the early 1990s solved its own banking crisis by guaranteeing deposits, injecting huge amounts of liquidity into the banking system via the central bank, and forcing banks to write down the value of their assets very quickly. In describing why that bailout worked, Urban Baeckstroem, the former Swedish central bank president who played a central role in the rescue, has identified some other vital measures. The first is that the Swedish government quickly moved to clean up government finances at the same time as it bailed...