now, do you know alice siebold at all? did you ever meet her? no, no, and i don't. review book s that i you know, sometimes i've met them. but not anybody who would be considered a friend. that would be a conflict of interest. well, laura miller you also write essays. how is that different than a review or is it? well, it depends i mean with with a book review your you're looking very closely at one particular book you're again trying to give readers a sense of whether they might want to read that book themselves. and with an essay you're typically looking at a larger question or issue and it might be that you're looking at other media as well as books like if you're writing an essay about say how depictions of sherlock holmes have changed over the years some of that's in the movies and some of that's on tv and some of that's in books, even though originally sherlock holmes was a literary character. so i think the essay usually has a bigger question than just the merits of that particular book. you're also an author the magician's book. came out in 2009. what is tha