The Perils of Possession

from Make Travel Fair UK 6 Books To Make You Think Twice Written by Stephen Chapman   Published on August 16, 2008  Reading other people’s stories of drug smuggling and drug use can teach us valuable lessons the easy way, preventing us from making the same mistakes as...

Serial Offender Peter Saul @ Seventy-four

from the New York Times  Provocateur: The Peter Saul Manifesto By HOLLAND COTTER NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Peter Saul, who turns 74 on Saturday, is a classic artist’s artist, one of our few important practicing history painters and a serial offender in violations of...

Financial Times Q&A with James Frey

from the Financial Times James Frey By Anna Metcalfe Published: August 16 2008 03:00 | Last updated: August 16 2008 03:00   James Frey is notorious for having embellished parts of his 2003 memoir, A Million Little Pieces. Promoted as a true tale of his time at a drug...

Louis Owens and John Steinbeck

from The Village Voice Louis Owens and John Steinbeck’s Ghosts A mystery solved with the help of a professor and a mobster’s musician By Tony Ortega Six years ago this summer, the Native American novelist Louis Owens drove his pickup truck to...