U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina sentenced Bodnar to 2-years of probation and ordered him to write a book about his experience connected to the case, which included questioning by a colorful New Jersey prosecutor, Chris Christie (now governor of NJ).

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Full disclosure: I am about to write about a book, TORN, in which I have written an essay.

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And every time I teach certain stories - I mean, for example, James Joyce's The Dead, which I talk about in the book as the perfect story to go to if, for example, you want to write a party scene, which party scenes are very difficult to write.

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