November 15, 2004

Colin Powell resigns

Colin Powell resigns as Secretary of State
I met him briefly in New York City a long time ago, after the first invasion of Iraq. He was a hero back then, immensely popular, and people were just beginning to hope he'd run for office. What a long, strange road he's walked since then.

Jonathan Franzen wets his pants over Alice Munro
I understand, though. In fiction writing in school, every other story we studied was by Munro. She is one of the masters of the short story.

Salon publishes Cory Doctorow's short story "Anda's Game"
A wink to Orson Scott Card's immensely popular novel Ender's Game, which has over 2000 customer reviews at Amazon.com.

Lots of Gladwell articles in The New Yorker recently. New one this week, in fact. Always a good thing.

Yevgeny Kafelnikov quits pro tennis to become a poker pro

Kobayashi eats 69 hamburgers in 8 minutes to win eating contest
Since he's already the reigning hot dog eating champion, perhaps this qualifies him as a two sport star.

Posted by eugene at November 15, 2004 11:30 AM
Comments

Serendipitous that the NYT Sun Mag is all about movies, n'est ce pas?
What Munro book would you receommend? Her latest? R

Posted by: rachael at November 15, 2004 5:55 PM

Hey Eugene - Small world. Joanne is old friend of Malcolm Gladwell. He's a guy you should definately get to know...super interesting with lots of great ideas. Have you met him?

Posted by: Ted at November 28, 2004 7:50 PM