Author: Alex Irvine
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Rumblings in the Heartland
A provocative anecdote from Nate Silver’s number-crunching electoral-poll-nerd extravaganza FiveThirtyEight.com: So a canvasser goes to a woman’s door in Washington, Pennsylvania. Knocks. Woman answers. Knocker asks who she’s planning to vote for. She isn’t sure, has to ask her husband who she’s voting for. Husband is off in another room watching some game. Canvasser hears…
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Italian-Style Buyout
My next novel, Buyout, concerns the consequences of a charter program under which prison inmates serving life sentences are able to take buyouts. The insurance company calculates the reserve amount they’re going to have to have on hand to feed/clothe/house/treat/litigate and offers the inmate X percent. In return, the inmate takes the Golden Needle. In…
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Late-Blooming Creativity
If you always wanted to be a literary wunderkind but the world has yet to recognize your genius even though you’re already eligible to be elected President, this New Yorker piece by Malcolm Gladwell might make you feel a little better. I know it did me… The age that I’m not looking forward to? When…
Crooked House Fictions 