Michael Cunningham's time has come

The author of 'The Hours' takes a grim trip through past, present, and future

By David Mehegan

Globe Staff / August 22, 2005

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CAMBRIDGE -- Novelist Michael Cunningham has a lean and feline look, as though at any moment he might dash up a tree and look down from an unseen perch. In jeans, white T-shirt, and spiky blond hair, he sits at a table outside the Charles Hotel, puffing brown Sherman's MCD cigarettes and talking about his new book, ''Specimen Days." (Full article: 1533 words)