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'The world of literary publishing runs on schadenfreude. Cocktail parties are full of paranoid sidelong glances and caustic mutterings. Yet Marilynne Robinson tends to be spoken of in hallowed tones. "I think she's a genius," one literary editor told me recently. Others refer to her "formidable mind". Several editors at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, her American publisher, were said to be nervous about joining her for dinner after an awards ceremony. One reportedly said: "I just don't want to sound stupid."' Intelligent Life rushes in where editors fear to tread with this interview.
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"[Bob Kearn's] remarkable success has made him one of the most famous inventors in the country, a hero to thousands of inventors with their own patent-infringement horror stories to tell. To others, he is a barnacle that has fastened itself to the underside of our patent system so tenaciously that the most powerful corporations in the world cannot pry it off." Now a Major Motion Picture with Greg Kinnear.
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