Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.