ABOUT 6:20 p.m., the world-famous author arrived. Clad in blue polo and jeans, he looked like a normal bookworm, making...
Author Alex London (“Proxy,” “Guardian”) had just arrived from New York with a serious case of jet lag, but he sounded upbeat. “Wonderful things happen to me when I’m jet-lagged,” he says. His dog of seven years, Baxter, was adopted when London went straight to the shelter after having been in Myanmar in 2007 covering the “Saffron Revolution.”