4. A SELF-ACKNOWLEDGED house hound (he'd renovated and sold six by the time he was 30), Bruno is fascinated with the sumptuous but well-worn interiors in "Rooms" by Derry Moore, Carl Skoggard and Joseph Holtzman (Rizzoli).
She described how agents or "securists" bugged her house, hounded her from her job, turned friends against her, interrogated her, threatened to kill her and even continued to follow her once she had left Romania – incidents that are dealt with in detail in her novels.
One morning, a neighborhood kid rode by on a bicycle and threw a crude pipe bomb through the window; Hauke chased him in his car and, after cornering him briefly in an abandoned house, hounded him on foot across a vacant tract called Pauline's Prairie, named after Pauline Hill, a city planner in the sixties who'd had this stretch of the neighborhood bulldozed for urban renewal, which never came.
I'd walk around the house singing "Hound Dog".
I'd walk around the house singing "Hound Dog". When I got a little older, I started singing at fairs and festivals in town.
Actually an old cargo hold transformed into a sort of halfway house for hounded humans, circumventing crowded concourses.
More than 200 MFHA-registered kennels in the United States and Canada house >12,000 hounds.
All they have in common is a talent for self-promotion, a skill in using the "pox on both their houses" dog whistle to attract media hounds.
Inspired, the partners went back to Mr. Stoller's house and wrote "Hound Dog".
In the book, which was made into the Roman Polanski film "The Ghost Writer," Mr. Lang, a thinly disguised version of Mr. Blair, can barely leave the house without being hounded by anti-Iraq-war protesters.
