text:  I'm Scott Simon. This hour, Ron Elving on a week without precedent in politics. Then, hello, IT. Cancellations, confusion, chaos after a global outage. An M.T. Anderson's new novel about monks and thieves out to heist the bones of a saint. The author lives in a haunted house. To some extent, it's exactly like this novel in that your life is controlled by a miracle you don't believe in. So, yeah, I mean, I don't believe in ghosts, but I have to listen to them howling all the time. It's a real pain in the butt.