From Luke Skywalker to Moses
The real world is filled with transformative “second chance” stories—true tales of people who at some point in their lives answer the summons of a new path.
Michael A. Kahn is a lawyer and the award-winning author of fourteen novels, including eleven in the Rachel Gold mystery series, and several short stories and essays. His latest novel, The Gourmet Club, was published earlier this year.
The real world is filled with transformative “second chance” stories—true tales of people who at some point in their lives answer the summons of a new path.
The best last lines stay with you long after you close the book—some like a welcome sip of fine cognac at the end of a delicious meal, and others, while not neatly wrapping up the story, stirring you to imagine what might happen next.
Appropriation art has not only outraged artists over the unauthorized and lucrative exploitation of their artwork but has been the subject of high-stakes lawsuits for decades. Appropriation artists defiantly operate under the flag of “fair use,” which some have described as a copyright lawyer’s full-employment act.