Picking up on the methodology of "Castle Rock," it imagines the life of a historical figure, in this case Sophia Kovalevsky, a 19th-century Russian mathematician and novelist.
The first reader to figure out this case will get a signed copy of my book, "Every Patient Tells a Story," along with the satisfaction of knowing you solved a case of Sherlockian complexity.
The first reader to figure out this case will get a signed copy of my book "Every Patient Tells a Story," along with the satisfaction of knowing you could outdiagnose the Diagnosis columnist.
It followed a Pynchon standby, the detective figure (in this case atypically a New Yorker and a woman), as she dived into the world of the dot-com bubble and surfaced to face the events of 9/11.
A play called "Marching Song," which he wrote with Roger Hill, is framed as a journalistic quest to understand a contradictory historical figure (in this case, John Brown); in an unfilmed script titled "The Smiler with the Knife," a right-wing tycoon is introduced, as in "Kane," with a newsreel.
The centroid is the geometric center of gravity in a three-dimensional figure, in this case, the left ventricle.
Time Freezes" (2005) has roots in Minimalism, or at least in that style's use of repeating figures — in this case, quickly broken violin and cello chords and a sparkling treble keyboard figure — as well as clearly articulated rhythms.
"Politics only figures in this case because of the person involved and his actions," he said.
Known as "The Three Purities," the figures in this case are erect and formal, as if granting an audience.
And it calls attention to a sad epilogue that will play out in Libya: an AIDS epidemic that has never been fully acknowledged and that continues to spread, even as the 426 children who figured in this case depend on treatment in a system ill prepared for the task.
