Heidi Julavits is arrested with bomb-making materials in Chicago. I am arrested for making harassing phone calls to Lorrie Moore. Joyce Carol Oates arrests herself and writes a novel about the experience. Harper's reprints Margot's phone transcripts, and spells both our names wrong. My book tour ends as I make sweet, strange love to Anne Rice in a New Orleans graveyard.
Sales top the one million mark.
I move to Finland. Dec. 24 Disguised as a minor Christian saint, I deliver presents to your house with my team of flying reindeer. The millennium turns, for good this time. I am never heard from again.