Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Judges will award The J. Anthony Lukas Prize of $10,000 to the author of a book of narrative nonfiction and The J. Anthony Lukas Grant of $45,000 to the author of a nonfiction work-in-progress...
...beneath mountains. The lead female character, a woman strong enough to ski for miles carrying a grown man on her back, could be the daughter of a yeti-like succubus in his story The Myths of Bears. And the novel's wilderness setting is very like the author's home valley in northern Montana, glorified in The Book of Yaak...
...imaginings: an epic, weeklong elk hunt in deep snow, a coffinmaker who carves his boxes in the shapes of totemic beasts. Bass's theme, however--humanity as a curse on nature--isn't quite realized in the unlikely person of a ruthless oil prospector called Old Dudley. And the author's habit of delivering long, italic nature lectures is windy self-indulgence. The dust jacket should bear a sign: EDITOR NEEDED, APPLY WITHIN...
...blamed "family history," her father, her grandfather. An old aunt, dying, said, forget that, you're a drunk. The author went through detox, then months in which her shaking hands shook less. And finally--family history, of course--learned to fly-fish properly. Taught, she insists, by a vision, possibly supernatural, of a naked man, fly rod in hand, drifting down a river on a raft. Sure. Anyhow, she is now able to cast a Royal Coachman so that the fly walks on water, "and the circle of fish shatters like beads in a kaleidoscope, bathing me in light...
...reported every year, and between 5% and 10% of females 14 and older suffer from such disorders, according to the nonprofit group Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention. "I don't think in local communities and in schools we're seeing any real flowering of girl power," says Joan Brumberg, author of The Body Project, which draws on diary entries from Victorian times to the present to argue that girls have increasingly defined themselves in terms of their looks. Although she believes that girls need their own cultural icons, Brumberg is worried that celebrities inevitably reinforce the notion that appearance...