Word: authority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cranes is also about "coming of age." As the young writer struggles to gain control of his talent, the young adult similarly searches for love and happiness. Like Philip, Leavitt frequently lacks perspective. Still, the parallel somehow makes the excesses of the author and his protagonist a bit more tolerable. Writing, like romance, works best when the participants are mature, confident, and know when to be silent. Both David Leavitt and his main character are still maturing...
...best reporters are outsiders," but they are often "outsiders who crave to be insiders," said Pulitzer Prize winning author J. Anthony Lukas, quoting author Gay Talese...
...shares with Libertino Faussone, the main storyteller of The Monkey's Wrench. "The world is beautiful because it's all different," says ! Faussone, an itinerant rigger who has worked on construction jobs all over the world. He is a fiction, says Levi, but authentic, a composite of workmen the author has known. The rigger's tales too have the pitch of stretched truths. On an eight-story tower, a mystery man collects dust that he claims comes from the stars. Faussone tells of a job in the tropics where one of his helpers was an ape: "He wanted to play...
During the past three decades, Author Anthony Burgess has produced a truly stupendous volume of writing. The number of his novels now approaches 30. There have also been more than 20 other books, including nonfiction, literary criticism, biography, children's stories, poems, plays and translations, not to mention screenplays and a relentless stream of uncollected reviews and journalistic pieces. This frenzy of production has made the author famous and, paradoxically, a tad unwelcome. Readers and reviewers, confronted regularly with someone who makes himself impossible to ignore, are likely to decide to do just that. A new Burgess? Never mind...
...drug traffic increases, author- ities are counting on "Operation Alliance," the Reagan Administration's recently announced antidrug program, for more agents and equipment. But local lawmen fear that the expensive new enforcement program, which extends along the entire length of the Mexican border, will not succeed unless Starr's citizenry can be enlisted in the war against drugs. At present many residents regard the narcotraficantes as local heroes, and their exploits are celebrated in ballads called corridos, which play on radio stations. In the river hamlet of Fronton, a monument was erected to mark a smuggler's death...