Howard Roughan

ONETJLo be perfectly blunt and unprofessional, my lineup that day read like the maladjusted all-star team of Manhattan.My nine o'clock was a bulimic, twice-divorced executive who was having an affair with her married boss.My ten o'clock was a guilt-ridden kleptomaniac who could never keep what he...

ONE The four of us were having dinner together, as we so often did. It was at the Grange Hall down in the West Village. There were Connor and Jessica, Tracy and me. Connor, never one to instigate a conversation let alone dominate it, was nonetheless center stage. "I realized the other day," he...

A gerince megtört. A könyvtest kissé deformált. "Gondoljon arra a nőre, aki meggyilkolta a saját gyerekeit, ráadásul ugyanabban a hónapban, amikor megkapta "Az év tanára" díjat. Vagy ott van a jóravaló családapa, aki több millió dollárt szedett össze jótékony célokra, egy nap...

ONE I don't belong here. I haven't for years. When I first came to Capitol Hill to work for Congressman Nelson Cordell, it was different. But even Mario Andretti eventually gets bored driving two hundred miles an hour every single day. Especially when you're going in a circle. I've been going in...