![]() ![]() The financial district: an hour ago it ran with rivers of men in gray wool and women in heels now the streets, built on sunken ships and gold-rush garbage, were deserted - quiet except for a foghorn that lowed across the bay like a lonesome cow. A low fog worked its way up from the bay, snaked around columns and over concrete lions to wash against the towers where the West's money was moved. Sundown painted purple across the great Pyramid while the Emperor enjoyed a steaming whiz against a dumpster in the alley below. ![]() And my agent, Nick Ellison, for his patience, guidance, friendship, and hard work. My editors, Michael Korda and Chuck Adams, for their clean hands and composure. Rachelle Stambal, Jean Brody, Liz Ziemska, and Dee Dee Leichtfuss for their careful reads and thoughtful suggestions. Mark Joseph and Mark Anderson for help with research in the Bay Area. The author gratefully acknowledges those people who helped in the research and writing of Bloodsucking Fiends: Resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living Of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products ![]()
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![]() ![]() (The Higgs was just the consolation prize Sabine says that was pretty much a given). It went all-in with the Large Hadron Collider and bet fifteen billion dollars that it would find supersymmetric particles. When you come down to it, they're both high-stakes gambling games. Jessica's talking about poker and Sabine's talking about physics, but the two subjects aren't as far apart as you first think. ![]() ![]() She reminds me a little bit of Jessica Chastain in Molly's Game. She's got a great voice, laid back and detached and deadpan. Somehow, even though a fair amount of it is near-incomprehensible physics-speak, she makes it cool and funny. She's asked them questions and she reports their answers. She's talked with a bunch of people, some of them major stars of the physics world. She's written this book to tell you why she's mad, and what she's done to try and find out what went wrong. 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As he explained in a 1985 interview: "It was just my character. ![]() In an introduction (of sorts) to the novel, Burroughs wrote that the book was a result of "detailed notes on sickness and delirium" that he took during his 15 years of heroin addiction. ![]() Burroughs' novel Naked Lunch is a dark, wild ride through the terror of heroin addiction and withdrawal, filled with paranoia, erotica and drug-fueled hallucinations. ![]() ![]() ![]() With Norma Broude, she co-edited four books on feminism and art history that have become basic texts in American universities and co-curated the recent exhibition Claiming Space: Some American Feminist Originators for the AU Museum, Katzen Arts Center. Her publications include two books and other writings on Artemisia Gentileschi, work that pioneered modern scholarship on a major 17th century Italian artist and her most recent book, Brunelleschi’s Egg: Nature, Art and Gender in Renaissance Italy (2010). 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