The magazine’s [The New Republic] editor, Franklin Foer, disclosed in an interview that Beauchamp is married to a New Republic staffer, and that is “part of the reason why we found him to be a credible writer.�
Perhaps, since this works so well for TNR they should suggest it as a hiring strategy for city governments.
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Mother of Storms […] is an ecological disaster novel about sudden global warming […] For all those strange people who are not into meteorology, let me add that it contains a great deal of sex and violence.
— John Barnes, author, semiotician
Sometimes you have to play to the fringe as well.