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Tom Perrotta's first book was a collection of short stories, but he's probably best known for his critically acclaimed novels. "Election" and "Little Children" were adapted into Oscar-nominated films, and the television adaptation of his book "The Leftovers" has just been picked up as an HBO series.
But as Perrrotta tells Here & Now, he still has a love for the short story form, which was reawakened when he edited "The Best American Short Stories 2012." As a result, he's just published "Nine Inches" — his first short story collection in 19 years (excerpt below).
Fans of Perrotta's fiction might be surprised at the stories' tone, which is more somber, with less of his trademark humor.
"I'm getting older as a writer and different stories are interesting me," he told Here & Now. "I think some of my characters are at this point in their lives where they're making a kind of reckoning and sensing that it might be a final reckoning." He adds, "I don't really care if my characters are happy … but I often feel like they're a little bit smarter."
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Ethan didn't want to go to the middle school dance, but the vice principal twisted his arm. He said it was like jury duty: the system only made sense if everybody stepped up and nobody got special treatment. Besides, he added, you might as well do it now, get it over with before the new baby comes and things get even crazier.
Ethan saw the logic in this, but it didn't make him feel any less guilty about leaving the house on Friday evening with the dishes unwashed and Fiona just getting started on her nightly meltdown—apparently her busy toddler-day wasn't complete unless she spent an hour or two shrieking her head off before bedtime. Donna smiled coldly at him from the couch, as if he'd volunteered to be a chaperone out of spite, just to make her life that much more difficult.
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Excerpted from the book NINE INCHES by Tom Perrotta. Copyright © 2013 by Tom Perrotta. Reprinted with permission of St. Martin's Press.
It's HERE AND NOW.
Author Tom Perrotta is best known for his sharply observed novels such as "Election" and "Little Children" that depict the dark side of suburban life. But his first published work back in 1994 was a collection of short stories. Now, after an almost 20-year hiatus from the form, Perrotta returns to the short story in his new collection, called "Nine Inches."
And in the title story, the character Ethan is a chaperone at a school dance. It's his job to enforce the rule that couples have to remain at least nine inches apart. But then one enraptured pair makes Ethan pause.
TOM PERROTTA: (Reading) Even at first glance, something seems strange about them, almost forbidding. The other couples had at least made a show of slow dancing, but these two were motionless, clinging to each other in perfect, almost photographic stillness. Amanda was melting against Ben. Arms wrapped tight around his waist, her faced crushed into his chest. His eyes were closed, his lips slightly parted. He appeared to be concentrating deeply on the smell of her hair. Ethan knew what he was supposed to do, but the role of chaperone suddenly felt oppressive to him. They just looked so blissful. It seemed wrong even to be watching them, almost creepy. But for some reason, he couldn't manage to avert his eyes, let alone move.
CHAKRABARTI: That's Tom Perrotta, reading from the title story of his new collection, "Nine Inches." He joins us in the studio to talk about it. Tom Perrotta, welcome.
PERROTTA: Oh, well, thank you.
CHAKRABARTI: So, "Nine Inches" is, in my mind, this distance of awkwardness, but also a good-natured, if possibly, ill-fated attempt from preventing people to get - from getting themselves into trouble. And it just seems like so many of the stories in your new collection, nevertheless, people are getting themselves into trouble.
PERROTTA: Well, stories are only interesting when people get into trouble. That's one of those funny things. People will say, like, why are so stories so depressing? Or why are they always about these difficult moments? And I was thinking, well, those are the moments when lives become interesting, and when they get put to the test, and when people discover that maybe they're not who they thought they were. Those moments of transition and discovery are the moments that you want to write about. And they're often difficult moments when, you know, a character's self-image runs into a test that it can't pass.
CHAKRABARTI: Yeah. I mean, tell us a little bit more about some of those tests that the character Ethan, who you were just reading about, the test that he undergoes.
PERROTTA: So, Ethan is a chaperone. He's a middle school teacher, and he's forced to go to this dance, and he, you know, he thinks that there's something ridiculous about this role of distance enforcer. But it also turns out that a fellow teacher named Charlotte is there, and they were in love five years ago. And the story slowly reveals the history of their love and the misunderstanding that has kept them apart. And he sort of realizes that there was some distance between the two of them that they've never been able to bridge. And, in a sense, they've kept themselves apart, that it was coming from them.
And so this story is about the distance between people, and how hard it is sometimes to bridge that, and how some of the people who bridge it are the wrong ones, and the people who are kept apart are the right ones. And it's all about closeness and intimacy and desire and sadness.
CHAKRABARTI: Well, Tom, let me ask you about that, because so many of the stories in the new collection do have that tinge of sadness or regret. And I've read some reviewers saying, you know, where's that Perrotta humor? You know, I'm thinking of "The Leftovers," your novel about what happens for the people left behind after the rapture.
PERROTTA: Yeah.
PERROTTA: All I can say is that, you know, I'm getting older as a writer, and different stories are interesting me. I think some of my characters are at this point in their lives where they're making a kind of reckoning and sensing that it may be a final reckoning.
CHAKRABARTI: Well, before I end up making this interview too much of a downer...
CHAKRABARTI: ...with all my talk about regret and stuff, I think there are definitely moments of hope and realization in a lot of the stories. I mean, even the fact that a character feels regret implies that he or she is having a realization of some sort.
PERROTTA: Well, as I said - I often say, you know, I don't really care if my characters are happy. I feel like happiness is a fleeting thing in people's lives. Sometimes you're happy. Sometimes you're not. But I often feel like they're a little bit smarter, that they've gone through some experience. They may even have been damaged by that experience, but they're processing it. And they're coming to realize: I used to be that person, but now I'm this person. And as this person, I have to build my life.
And so I think what I'm showing in a lot of these stories is that simultaneous movement away from the person somebody was to some tentative new beginning, some new relationship that is more authentic to the truth that's been revealed.
CHAKRABARTI: Do you have a favorite example? I mean, there are several in the book.
PERROTTA: Two that stand out. "One-Four-Five" is a story about a pediatrician who basically torches his life through a series of what appear to be random mistakes, but really seem to be just a real rejection of the life that he built for himself. And he discovers blues music at the same time, and he goes to a guitar store and finds a sort of mentor. And it's a funny friendship between these two middle-aged men who just want to play guitar together. But this becomes the rock that he's going to build a new life on.
The other one is the story "The All-Night Party," that ends at - another story about a chaperone. I'm really interested in those places where adults and kids meet and mingle. This is an all-night graduation party, and a divorced mom goes there and gets enmeshed in some adolescent dramas, but also finds herself attracted to a police officer who she initially despises. And there's this sort of sweet moment of connection between the two of them. I chose to end the collection with it, because it felt like the most hopeful one.
CHAKRABARTI: Nice. "Nine Inches" is your first short story collection in, what, 19 years?
PERROTTA: Yeah.
CHAKRABARTI: Why do you think you drifted away from short story just - into novels for almost two decades?
PERROTTA: Well, I think when I started to write novels I discovered that I really liked it. Stories are hard, because they're all beginning and end. You know, it's very purposeful. And you basically build it up, and then shut it down really quickly. And I discovered that what I really like is the middle, where I set up a situation and have characters moving around. And I like, often in my novels, to have a number of characters. And I kind of love that middle part, where the characters are up and running, and they're bumping into each other and their stories are all in motion.
So I think I just really feel comfortable in the world of novels, but I love stories, too. And, in fact, one of the things that led me to write this book, or to finish it - because I had a bunch of stories written, but I wrote several in the last year. I had edited "The Best American Short Stories of 2012," and it just reminded me how much I love the form. And I thought, you know, I have to get back to story-writing. And so over the past 10 years, I had maybe half of a book.
So I really was thinking about in terms of a book. And I said, OK, I need maybe four or five stories. And I think the thing there is novels are often about a collection of characters, or a community. And I think one of the reasons that stories have a kind of melancholy tinge sometimes is they're often about people who were alone or reflecting. They're people a little bit separated from community...
CHAKRABARTI: Because you can't really cram in a cast of thousands.
PERROTTA: Right, exactly. And - but, certain stories, as I was writing them, I did start to feel like, oh, this could open up into a novel. As soon as you start to put even just two characters together, you start feeling, oh, this could become much bigger. And so there was often that feeling that I had as a story-writer of, like, don't expand this. You know, keep it shut down for now, because I was trying to finish the book. But that's what I love about storytelling, is that it can multiply. The story suddenly is much bigger than you expected it to be.
CHAKRABARTI: Well, Tom Perrotta's new collection of short stories is called "Nine Inches." Tom Perrotta, it's been such a pleasure to speak with you. Thank you.
PERROTTA: Well, thank you so much. It's been great.
CHAKRABARTI: By the way, don't be put off by the melancholy tone, there. "Nine Inches" really is worth reading. There's an excerpt of it at our website, hereandnow.org. And, by the way, you can also look out for Perrotta's latest novel "The Leftovers" on television. It's just been picked up by HBO.
From NPR and WBUR Boston, I'm Sacha Pfeiffer.
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SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/16/13 -- Open Compute Summit - Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (NASDAQ: AMCC) today announced that it has signed its contribution license with the Open Compute Project (OCP) Foundation, developing the first micro server board design specification based on the ARMv8 architecture. The design will leverage the AppliedMicro® X-Gene platform, the industry's first ARM 64-bit Server on a Chip solution.
As the first ARMv8 contribution to the OCP Motherboard Working Group, the new specification contributed by AppliedMicro will be the foundation for purpose-built cloud and enterprise server deployments specifically focusing on increased density and field serviceability resulting in a lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
"The X-Gene platform is designed to deliver unprecedented low power, high performance and integration, with the goal of changing the way servers are designed for cloud and enterprise applications," said Dr. Paramesh Gopi, president and CEO of AppliedMicro. "This purpose-built server on a chip and open source software deliver the cost efficiency, power and performance needed to serve evolving data center workloads. And, with X-Gene silicon slated to sample to key customers this quarter, an ARM 64-bit server motherboard design has the potential to reach the data center by the end of this year."
The new micro server design was showcased by Frank Frankovsky, chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and vice president of hardware design and supply chain at Facebook, during his keynote today at the Open Compute Summit. It is one of the first designs released for the Open Compute Project common slot architecture specification -- a specification that can accommodate all SOC architecture types -- that was also announced at the Summit.
"As the first to deliver silicon based on the ARM 64-bit architecture, AppliedMicro gives consumers an opportunity to evaluate the benefits of this compelling processor architecture in server motherboard designs," Frankovsky said. "An alternative processor architecture such as ARM, coupled with open source software, has the potential to radically increase the amount of compute power we can get from the energy we consume and the money we spend."
Gopi also presented at today's Open Compute Summit and noted that key customers will have samples in house this quarter. The server motherboard design featuring the X-Gene platform is being showcased at the Summit in the AppliedMicro Booth #A2, January 16-17 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara.
About the X-Gene Platform
As the world's first 64-bit ARM processor, the X-Gene platform combines ARMv8-compliant cores with advanced off-load engine capabilities unique to AppliedMicro. The new Server on a Chip solution has been purpose-built to deliver compelling performance for real-world cloud workloads at a fraction of the power and cost of existing solutions. Together, AppliedMicro and ARM co-developed the ARMv8 architecture, giving AppliedMicro a significant lead in enabling a new breed of public and private cloud servers.
About AppliedMicro
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation is a global leader in computing and connectivity solutions for next-generation cloud infrastructure and data centers. AppliedMicro delivers silicon solutions that dramatically lower total cost of ownership. Corporate headquarters are located in Sunnyvale, California. www.apm.com.
X-Gene, Server on a Chip, Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, AMCC, AppliedMicro and the AppliedMicro logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Applied Micro Circuits Corporation. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners.
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Just one note about a Klinsmann quote in this article:
"But we have quite a long way to go to climb back into the top 10 in the world."
I don't think he said "climb back." I believe he just said "climb." The U.S. has never been considered one of the top 10 best teams in the world.
ranked in top 10 after japan/korea
They have been ranked as high as 4th
It would help to know if by Top 10 Klinsmann were referring to a general perception of the best national sides globally or FIFA's World Ranking, which is a bit too volatile to be a benchmark.
It's time for the US to create a national soccer academy on the Dutch model. As our best 8 year olds are identified and allowed to play together for 12 to 15 years a unique American style has to develop. We'll never achieve that by amalgamating regional traveling teams and college stars every four years into a national team
I loved what Klinsmann said last year after our loss to Ghana, "The first touch is not there for the Americans," If he can fix that part of the game for us the sky's the limit. Our back four needs a lot of help as well.
Wait until Klinsmann runs into some high school football coaches who guard their turf like rottweilers.
Klinsmann was one of the best strikers to ever play the game. Relentless always. His comments about the US "first touch' mentioned in another post was exactly right in the last Cup Almost every pass to an American seemed to bounce out three feet rather than stay at the player's feet. Half our passes were then taken away. We have to improve that or we can only get as far as luck will allow.
@TGA, Aaron, and Allan... I know the U.S. has been ranked as high as 4th by the FIFA world rankings, but has never maintained it's position that high for very long. It's not a perfect ranking system and while I think that on any given day, the US can compete with any country, that doesn't make it an elite national team. There are some countries that are perpetually near the top of the rankings because they have a certain level of skill and consistency. So, I wouldn't say the U.S. has ever been elite or perceived as elite because of the good rankings... Just as a pretty good team. I think it's going to take a lot of work with the youth system to get to that level, but I think the U.S. can eventually make it with the right visionaries at the helm. Hopefully Klinsmann will help make a difference in this area in addition to getting results with the current team.
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For CRS: I think American football coaches can have their players, although rugby might be able to use a few. Their mentality (e.g. creativity), conditioning, and body types are all wrong. If anything, basketball might be more fertile ground, but I think even that would have limited application, e.g. to goalkeepers and a few others.
For Caleb878: Yes, I remember that comment of Klinsmann's; thank you for reminding me. It's the kind of observation that seems so simple, but in its simplicity and clarity turns a lot of light bulbs on in a lot of heads and you immediately think, "geez, he's right"!
For bas: I might agree that's an attractive idea, but for two related things. First, coaching at the level of 8 year olds or even 12 year olds) may not be good enough yet - I know it was abysmal 20 years ago when my sons were that age. Second, because of that and because today's 10 year old prodigy often becomes a 14 year old klutz - and vice versa - I believe it's a fool's game to try to pick winners at that age. Better perhaps to create a national academy for coaches (and referees, too). I wonder if Klinsmann might not agree to "let a thousand flowers bloom"?
Sometimes someone comes along at the right time, with the right attitude and he changes not only a game but an attitude as well. Maybe, just maybe, America will get a little bit better because of Juregen Klingsman. At least maybe he'll put the true sport back into sport in this country.
He definitely should not change his name though. Bad idea.
This was an excellent choice.
I wonder how much the writer knows about the game.
Michael Bradley, "the best young player..", he didn't even start at Aston Villa. How about Juan Agudelo who won it for the US against South Africa? Also Freddy Adu, who looks promising. That first touch is coming, and it only takes more and more practice with players getting comfortable on the field and understand where others are playing. I do believe Michael is an asset, as well as some as our older players. The US National Team lacks the depth and talent, not that it isn't available, just under scouted. There is much talent out there, it just needs to be garnered and brought up.
Good Luck to Coach Klinsmann, and best wishes to Bob Bradley, who I think did a decent job in bringing us to where we are today. Can we get better? Sure we can...
Let's go get Mexico!
You're not going to see a world cup hoisted in the air by an American until you see American 3 year olds walking and running anywhere and everywhere with a soccer ball at their feet.
Unlike Agudelo or Adu, Bradley has actually accomplished something on a consistent basis at a world-class level, not just with USMNT but also 3 years' starting experience in the Bundesliga. All at the age of 24 (birthday was Sunday).
I'd say the writer does know a little about the game.
Klinsmann is an excellent choice on so many levels. At the highest of importance, I believe that US soccer has finally hired someone that is removed from the politics that have been cultivated within the program for years. Having participated in the Olympic Development Program (ODP) several years ago as a youth, its political nature is undeniable. It is an obsolete system that I can only hope is being faded out in favor of the Academies, http://academy.demosphere.com/ which are picking up steam in the youth game (wish these had existed when I played, but at least we are showing progress). The Academy programs will cultivate talent in ways American soccer has not seen. They will also keep our top talent from entering the collegiate programs (this probably makes today's soccer parent cringe). Unfortunately collegiate programs are where we are falling behind the rest of the world and where our talent gets mucked up by poor coaching due to budget problems, and NCAA regulations restricting practice time. In order to compete with the rest of the world we have to develop a model similar to the rest of the world (the American Football model doesn't work for all other sports). I think this is starting to take place and having a world class leader such as Klinsmann should accelerate the progress. It will be interesting to watch...
Also, Juan Agudelo doesn't even start for the New York Red Bulls. So, Paul Michael Owens, by your logic...
"Also Freddy Adu, who looks promising. " --seriously? Freddy is 22, young yes, but many other notable US national team players were highly accomplished by that age (Donovan, Bradley, etc.). He will be nothing more than a role player at best...
Hey, maybe he should change his first name to Once (pronounced OHN-say) to appeal to the Latino youth.
> In his favor, Klinsmann did this once before, taking over the German national team before the 2006 World Cup. Out went the country's organized, almost militaristic approach to the game.
Militaristic??? Seems to me some weird national stereotype got the better of Matthew Futterman here. If there's any common German footballing philosophy, I'd say it's that of a strong team spirit and being mentally well-prepared for tournaments. Only need only think of Sepp Herberger's famous line about his team having to be 11 friends ("Elf Freunde sollt sollt ihr sein!").
As for a national team or club having a strong philosophy of its own, Barcelona's the textbook example. The club has a coherent philosophy that every coach is expected to adhere to. Unlike many other clubs who change philosophies with each new coach.
The most successful national teams also have such a common philosophy. And as say Dunga's Brazil in 2010 showed, departing from that national philosophy is a perilous undertaking.
In my view, US soccer actually is very similar to German football in that a strong team spirit and a dogged never-give-up mentality pervades the teams. US football however doesn't have the players - yet - to play the fast-paced attacking game that has characterised German football since 2006. But perhaps Klinsmann can inject also more playing culture into the US team.
Though that didn't happen overnight in Germany. Youth development reforms were key and it took 5-10 years for that to pay off. US soccer's going in the right direction, with or without Klinsmann. But with him, I think things may gain greater momentum.
Those things take time and at Bayern, he simply wasn't given that sort of time. For his systemic approach, I'd say coaching a national team with its longer timelines simply works better.
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The trap is set.....And so it starts!
OH NOES YOUR BORED! *runs around screaming like a crazy person*
No, no, no, no!
TO DIE FOR!! hahahahahahahhaahahah *rolls on floor* hahahahahaha.
*stops laughing**Deep breath**Serious voice* Moyo your dead
*stops laughing**Deep breath**Serious voice* Moyo your dead
Note: whenever Taka says it's to die for, someone is going to die.
We knew Zira was going to follow...you can see right from this page here. ^^
3rd panel
Taka is cute in some way
Taka is cute in some way
Oh crap he said the same thing to Simba! Something bad is gonna happen!😱😱😱😱
Ziras there....
RUN MOYO RUN AWAY AND NEVER RETURN... to taka I mean... stay at pride rock.
Ok... NOW I DON'T LIKE TAKA/SCAR D= I used to because you could tell why he was grumpy but... AHH
yeah guys its to͜ ̕d̢i͞e for
*prediction*...I sense incoming death...and poor Moyo has no clue...
Taka... You seriously need to improve your lying skills...!!! 'XD
This is not going to end well.
This "suprise to die for" thing is one of Scars favourites huh XD ... uh oh I have a bad feeling
For some reason I predict that it is Viicha who dies soon.
I still care more about Taka becoming a murderer than the death of this one....(I hope the hyenas kill him without Taka be involved...ç_ç)XD
Oh nu! Baby Zira in the bottom is going to follow her daddy there. And see that he's a killer! D: (That is if my next sentence turns to be true)
Taka, don't chu dare kill Moyo. >:c Granted, I guess, these extra characters will have to die off eventually, even though it's super sad. :c
Taka, don't chu dare kill Moyo. >:c Granted, I guess, these extra characters will have to die off eventually, even though it's super sad. :c
A surprise to die for.... oh where have I heard that before?
Oh gosh, he's working on the plans he and Vicha made, huh? DX I am so sorry for Moyo! I am going to cry like a lil bitch if he dies, omg.
Awww, well.. He MIGHT not die.. We'll see
Something obviously happens considering he's not in the movie :C
its a place to "die for"... that explains everything
-gets a flash back of the "Lion King"- .....well shit. Zira, you better get some help girl. lols
dude, i'm already suspicious
scar plotting up.
zira please save him.
scar plotting up.
zira please save him.
"To die for"
At this point we all know Moyo's gonna die
At this point we all know Moyo's gonna die
"Its to Die for" Oh gawd Run Moyo! Run for yur Life!
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- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) beef broth, divided
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 2 tablespoon dried parsley flakes
- 1 tablespoon dried basil
- 1 tablespoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon seasoned salt
- 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon pepper
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- In a small bowl, combine cornstarch and remaining broth until smooth. Stir into beef mixture. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Serve with mashed potatoes or pasta. Yield: 3 cups.
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