Novelist Susan Choi, Creating 'A Person of Interest'   Fresh
Air's book critic reviews A Person of Interest, a new novel by
Susan Choi.  Excerpt: 'A Person of Interest'  Susan Choi's 'A
Person of Interest'  It was only after Hendley was bombed that
Lee was forced to admit to himself just how much he'd disliked
him: a raw, never-mined vein of thought in an instant laid bare
by the force of explosion. Of course, it was typical in his
profession for diminishing elders to harbor ill-will toward
their junior colleagues. But Lee, who had been tenured in his
department for more than twenty years, felt that he was exempt
from the obsolescence that infected most other professors his
age. He was still capable of the harsh princeliness he'd
possessed in his youth, although now he was half through his
sixties, and his hair was all white. That old aristocratic
hauteur would return suddenly, and his loose, dowdy trousers,
always belted too high, would seem to sit on a younger man's
waist. The liver spots that had come to h