The criteria signing 'Julie and Julia' were very similar to what we would use for any book proposal: There was a strong voice; there was a freshness and a novelty to what she was doing.

A lot of editors will tell you that 2004 and 2005 haven't been very good for fiction acquisitions. There weren't a lot of huge auctions or books that publishers got really excited about.

The last thing New Mexico needs is to have to pursue legal proceedings to collect large unpaid bills from out-of-state candidates.

It would have been so great for me to know that I wasn't alone.

Inanimate objects never live, yet at the same time live forever.

The series 'Generation Kill' is, along with everything else, a sustained critique of the structural and conventional fictions of 'The Hurt Locker.'