Monthly Archives: October 2007

5 Things I Learned from Elizabeth: The Golden Age
(the movie)

October 21, 2007
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1. With a little batting, white doilies make excellent stand-up collars 2. White horses can swim in frigid, choppy waters 3. Wind machines make diaphanous capes flutter 4. King Philip of Spain was a religious fanatic who kicked the bucket 10 years after driving Spain to bankruptcy in an attempt to fund his foolish and ill-advised military advances. George W. Bush is a lot like King Philip. 5. Clive Owen is a major hottie-pants, even when he’s saying crap like, “I know of only one world, one life, and in this world and this life, I have loved you,...

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McCanns as Public Spectacle Number One

October 20, 2007
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New toxicology tests commissioned by the McCann family show that the McCann twins, Sean and Amelie, were not sedated on May 3, the night Madeleine McCann went missing. If the tests prove to be truly objective, this puts a hole in the Portuguese police theory that Kate McCann sedated Madeleine to make her go to sleep, resulting in a fatal overdose; the police had also claimed that the twins were sedated, and that was why they didn’t wake up during the search for Madeleine in the chaotic minutes after her disappearance. Read the story about the tests here. The...

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It’s Official

October 18, 2007
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I’ve finally settled on a title for my new novel. It’s called No One You Know, and it will be published by Delacorte in 2008. As I’m still hammering out portions of the book, I’ll just mention that it opens in Nicaragua and is set primarily in San Francisco, and my research has been quite fun, as it has taken me to a large local coffee roastery as well as to a couple of dairy farms. The novel also happens to involve a lot of math–an odd turn of events considering that numbers have caused me life-long fear and...

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tonight in Mill Valley

October 17, 2007
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I’ll be reading from and discussing THE YEAR OF FOG tonight at The Depot in Mill Valley, 7:00.

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Telegraph Knows How to Put a Downer on a Prize

October 16, 2007
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Here’s the headline and opening paragraph from The Telegraph, on the winner of the Booker Prize: ‘Depressing Irish saga’ wins the Booker Prize A desperately bleak Irish family saga featuring a suicide and sexual abuse that has sold barely 3000 copies in the UK in five months emerged as the surprise winner of the £50,000 Man Booker Prize. The Gathering, by the 45-year-old Dublin writer Anne Enright, was a rank outsider in what was expected to be a fight between Ian McEwan, bidding for his second win, and the New Zealand author Lloyd Jones, shortlisted for his novel Mister...

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