I Was Not Michael Jackson
By Michael Thomas , the author of the novel Man Gone Down (THE WASHINGTON POST, 28/06/09): I was driving home listening to the radio on Thursday when I heard that Michael Jackson was dead. I turned it off and thought about my brother. It’s not that I don’t think about him — I suppose I could say that though he’s only sometimes on my mind, he’s always in it. He moves, or I move him, from an impressionistic figure in a background to a man in sharp focus. He is in trouble and, now that I thi