So I was reading Nancy Nall's blog this morning -- and you should, too -- and ready to chime in that the interest rate in 1979/80 reached 18 percent. Or did it? I grabbed the notebook in which I had all my research, referenced in the previous blog post and there was the solution to a problem that has been dogging me all week, a quote from someone not particularly famous in the world-at-large (Dr. John Money) about the "pro-incest" movement that was, according to Time, briefly in vogue, a trend story Read more [...]

I spent the morning at the Enoch Pratt, reading issues of Time from 1979 and 1980, looking for things that would be very much on my characters' minds (inflation was 18 percent, the hostage crisis, the 1980 presidential race) and things that might be more subtextual (Mount St. Helens, "Who Shot J.R.?" and an attempt to "normalize" the public view of incest.) Along the way, I jotted down a few things that sounded awfully familiar. "The art of editing is in decline." "Is capitalism working?" "First-hand Read more [...]