First Exposure For My Forthcoming Novel, "Later Days," the follow-up to "Arroyo"

From Larry Wilson, columnist for the Southern California New Group: “I’m still in the middle of “Later Days,” which deals not only with Prep and its jocks, freaks, intellectuals and geeky faculty but with Caltech’s famous underground steam tunnels, where a Nobelist is encountered; besties bound for Stanford and Cal before problems arise; sex, drugs and lots of rock ‘n’ roll. But I jumped ahead to a late chapter, “The Return,” about what it’s like to come back in 2000 to a school now endowed by big-time money, and love it: “Everything’s so freshly unwrapped: the expanded, Ethernet-wired classrooms and two-window snack bar selling salads and BLTs; the space-age gym with digital scoreboard. The twenty-screen computer center. Supposedly, there was a ‘relaxation couch’ in the girls’ room.” And, for a novel that begins with a harrowing bullying incident involving a campus tough and our protagonist, a sign in a walkway: “Our Honor Code Has ZERO Tolerance for Bullies…”

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