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Apr.17.2010
In the summer of 1967 (and for part of the summer of ’68) I worked part-time at an East Village store on 10th Street called Paranoia. What had started out as a hangout (a college friend’s cousin owned the place) turned into employment. There were four rooms: the front room, which contained...
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Apr.16.2010
A few months ago I was speaking to a local community organization on the subject of child sexual abuse. The President of the organization had invited both my husband and myself to dinner for their weekly meeting and I had been excited about another way to reach the community regarding the...
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Apr.10.2010
When Sting talked about legalisation of drugs, the poor guy had to sound like a nice guy. So he said that the money the US spends on reforming drug users and imprisoning them could be better used to tackle poverty and global warming.
I think he was high when he said that. Poverty and Global...
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Apr.05.2010
In this weekend's Sunday Times (London) my Palestinian sleuth Omar Yussef is described as "one of the most beguiling of current sleuths." You can read the roundup in full at Times Online, but here's the section about my newest novel THE FOURTH ASSASSIN:
Set in a pulsating, multicultural...
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Mar.23.2010
Every Thing Matters! by Ron Currie, Jr.
Writer friend Dave Frauenfelder loaned me this one, a novel I wouldn’t have picked - by an author I’d never heard of (with the overabundance of writers out there, such is the state of reading these days). It has much to dismay me, along the lines of my...
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Mar.17.2010
I grew up in El Paso, Texas. You may have heard about the most recent incident of border violence in the El Paso/Juarez area that occurred over the weekend. Not all border towns are alike, but I feel very fortunate to have grown up in El Paso. It was an opportunity like no other. People talk...
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Feb.10.2010
Famous Literary Drunks & Addicts Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888): OpiumThe author of Little Women began using morphine to ease the after-effects of typhoid fever contracted during service as a nurse during the Civil War.Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
(full article)
http://www.life....
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Jan.30.2010
My mother Rayanna never graduated from high school. She lived in Arkansas as a child, on a farm, and grew up during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Maybe she ran around without shoes; I don’t know, but I suspect she did. She knew how to pick cotton and hitch a mule. She could make corn bread (...
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Jan.14.2010
“Is that the guy who likes to have sex with dead women?”
“No, I think that’s just a myth.”
“Do you want another line?”
“When I’m done. I’m almost done. Maybe. Okay, yes.”
My boyfriend walks away. The party continues around me. This is the ugly kind of party where people have turned into zombies,...
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Jan.09.2010
Teen Angel
That year, everyone had your same name,
but spelled it with an "S". Black beauties
in baggies at the bottom of your purse.
A 28-year-old boyfriend. Your whispers
that my bangs made me look retarded.
I watched you break the mirror in your
locker with your hands, then stare at
the tiny...
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