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May 07, 2009 09:26 AM EDT --
The United States government has been involved in the torture business for some time. During the 1950s, 60, and 70s, the CIA’s adventures in countries like Guatemala, Honduras, Chile, and Iran, . . .
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March 13, 2009 02:29 PM EDT --
SPOKANE, Washington - The mysterious mewing in Vickie Mendenhall's home started about the time she bought a used couch for $27.
After days of searching for the source of the noise, she found a . . .
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October 24, 2008 05:03 PM EDT --
With the campaign winding down and swing state numbers less than encouraging for the McCain ticket, Gov. Sarah Palin has begun her quest for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, depending on the . . .
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October 21, 2008 05:04 PM EDT --
Gen. Colin Powell and Republican Political Arm
“If you lie down with dogs,” goes the hoary old saw, “you’ll get up with fleas.” Gen. Colin Powell’s days and nights of bunking with the Republican . . .
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October 16, 2008 03:39 PM EDT --
Campaigns become increasingly contentious as they approach a conclusion and poll numbers drive candidates into states of denial, panic, or disbelief. Candidates perfunctorily claim that they don’t pay . . .
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September 21, 2008 12:05 PM EDT --
A little more than a week ago, when I heard that David Foster Wallace had committed suicide, I felt the sort of sorrow that I’ve only felt rarely upon hearing of the death of someone I didn’t know personally. . . .
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April 07, 2008 11:13 AM EDT --
I told the second Elinor Dashwood that I would give some serious thought to our conversation. She seemed satisfied with that, smiling that creamy little self-congratulatory smile of hers, her teeth whiter . . .
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March 28, 2008 11:23 AM EDT --
There was a rabbity little rise to her upper lip when she smiled that revealed front teeth too white to not have been bleached. Her eyes were round, dark, and wet-looking, almost like a meerkat. But she . . .
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March 25, 2008 11:55 AM EDT --
As soon as I hit the sidewalk outside of the Café Denouement, I tumbled into the backseat of the first cab I saw. The driver wore a turban and a large beard, and he was playing a CD that sounded . . .
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March 18, 2008 08:48 AM EDT --
The waiter set a bourbon, neat, on the table in front of me, and refilled Max's coffee cup.
"Nothing for you, Max?" I said. I shook out a Lucky from the pack, tapped it hard against my . . .
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March 14, 2008 10:29 AM EDT --
Since Max Vox's call had gotten my day off to such an early start, I had plenty of time and decided to walk the twelve blocks to our meeting.
Apart from a flickering moment upon hanging up the . . .
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March 11, 2008 03:22 PM EDT --
The jangling telephone on the bedside table woke me. It was far too early for anyone to be placing a friendly call. I answered it anyway.
"Good morning , Mr. Ray. I trust I did not wake you?" . . .
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March 04, 2008 08:42 AM EST --
I lit two cigarettes and gave her one. She uncoiled herself from me and laid back, her hair splayed luxuriously against the pillow, the thin sheet clinging to that body of hers like Graham Greene clinging . . .
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February 29, 2008 09:00 AM EST --
I had something to write, a piece that was going to make some dame a hit with some dweeby Web community—though why a dame who looked like our Miss Vye aka Dashwood needed to write anything to gain . . .
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February 26, 2008 11:44 AM EST --
I needed to kill some time and clear my head before starting on her piece. Yeah, I agreed to do it, but I wouldn't take any money from her -- a half-assed technicality that I imagined still allowed . . .
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February 22, 2008 12:29 PM EST --
It was a day like any other in this rummy business. I had given my secretary Lana the afternoon off to go hat shopping. I was sitting in my office, feet up on the desk, honing my computer solitaire skills . . .
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January 16, 2008 12:33 PM EST --
My esteemed Gather colleague and connection Nick K. recently posted a plaintive piece on poetry appreciation, or lack thereof. "Oh cursed verse, I rarely get ye" cites a few of . . .
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October 24, 2007 09:13 AM EDT --
NEW YORK — Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling served up a bombshell Friday evening during a reading at Carnegie Hall, telling a crowd of fans from throughout the United States that Dumbledore, . . .
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August 30, 2007 12:49 PM EDT --
You've been asking about it. You've been clamoring for it. I can't think from the din, all the asking and clamoring. The loud and long entreaties . The hooting and foot-stomping. I'm . . .
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August 28, 2007 10:24 AM EDT --
No one is perhaps more surprised by the success of the Two Roosters Press’s publishing gambit than the firm itself. Established in 2005 as a tongue-in-cheek foil to the institutional and much-vaunted . . .
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