... guy now coming into more general recognition as a writer of merit. In the Q&A, I asked him about a movie deal I'd read about for his novel Motherless Brooklyn, with Edward Norton as Lionel Esrog, the orphaned detective with Tourette's Syndrome, trying to find the killer of his mentor. Lethem said he doesn't actually know what's up, but that he got and cashed the check from the ...

... real problem is tuition, period. Why should I, a Jewish person, be forced to pay for something that the rest of the world is getting for free? It's not like we are talking about an Esrog here, something that is essentially optional that people go crazy over anyway. We are talking about something that the rest of the United States has termed a "right" for every individual. Everyone ...