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May.17.2013
A couple of days ago there was a crime contest on Twitter. Tweets were requested to describe Lawmakers/Lawbreakers. I decided to expose my memorable villain - Norman. Here are my tweets describing my none-too-friendly protagonist. Any (or all - how fast can I talk) ready for that mythical elevator...
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Apr.20.2013
Photo: Boston's finest rushing to help an injured runner. This will be SI's cover. From mashable.com.
My thoughts, such as they are, on this week's marathon massacre and the FBI's and Watertown PD's amazing capture of Suspect #2. There'll be another post soon that chronicles my...
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Mar.10.2013
Here are a few snippets of conversation:
Department Head at my first interview as a new law graduate: "Do you think it's harder for you to be a woman in a man's world?"
Me: "I don't know. I've never been a man."
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Mar.07.2013
I had several near death experiences as a young attorney. A legal memorandum I drafted to the managing partner was returned to me, because it contained, in my assistant's mind, too many revisions. She wrote across the top of the page, in perfect penmanship, "If you can't do it right...
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Oct.14.2012
At long last - and I mean decades, not just the four years of this trial - manuscripts which his friend Max Brod spirited out of Prague, on the last train before the Nazis captured the city, are to be made public. It might not please Kafka. It probably would please Brod. But it certainly pleases me...
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Sep.21.2012
There is information in this article which I did not know - always a pleasing situation when learning about Kafka. I did not realize that the bulk of his extant manuscripts were given to his nieces by Max Brod and it was they, in turn, who gave them to Oxford University's Bodleian Library. How...
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Aug.25.2012
Let The Great World Spin, by Colum McCann
image via goodreads.com
This is about as complex a novel as you’re likely to find these days. That’s not praise, exactly, but neither is it a complaint. It’s about New York City in the grander perspective, probably why it was honored...
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Apr.13.2012
I don't pretend to know the ins and outs of this. I don't even know, if the complaint is accurate, what that really means for authors. I am further confused that some publishers have acquiesced while others have not. You are welcome to read the materials and fend for yourself. I do appreciate...
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Feb.05.2012
I know I don’t usually talk about criminal procedure here in The Write Report. My forte is civil law, not criminal. But a recent Supreme Court case put the kibosh on a very common plot device, so I wanted to alert you to it.
You see it all the time on TV. The cops put a tracking device under the...
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Dec.26.2011
Another person out there trying again, of measurably more fame and public impact than me, is Stephen Glass.
Glass was a journalist who made many things up. He wrote for the The New Republic but was also published in numerous other magazines, like Rolling Stone Magazine, back in the late 90s...
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