Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...faced masks for big names to paint (the results of which will be auctioned off in May), the celebs didn't take their artistic selves too seriously. LARRY KING attempted a sweet self-portrait, as did Broncos quarterback JOHN ELWAY, although the face guard looks more like skull fractures. Author AMY TAN even displayed some ability, while WILLIE NELSON accomplished a breakthrough in the mask-art genre with his use of mixed media, i.e., the addition of a head scarf...
...been 20 years since John Irving's fourth novel, The World According to Garp, made its author famous. Not only did the book attract a massive readership, but it also inspired a cult following and such extra-literary phenomena as Garp T shirts and fan clubs. Irving's ninth novel, A Widow for One Year (Random House; 537 pages; $27.95), is unlikely to generate a similar hullabaloo. That is not because Irving's storytelling skills have waned; his new novel is in many respects his best since Garp. But over the past two decades, serious fiction has been elbowed ever...
...novel's long opening section. Irving's use of suspense is peculiar and intriguing. The question he poses is seldom what will happen next; for example, he spills the beans quickly that Marion will reappear in the story 37 years after it begins. But this information is strictly between author and reader; the characters, realistically enough, are left in the dark. As Ruth begins imagining her fourth novel, about an unhappy love affair, she hits on a rule that clearly guides her creator: "The reader should anticipate the boyfriend's awfulness, but the woman writer doesn't see it coming...
PROSE BEAUS AND BELLES O.K. So you can't judge a book by the cover. But perhaps there's another way. Maybe you can judge the author by the cover or, more precisely, the lack thereof. Take a peek at some recent book authors without jackets: Isabel Allende (Aphrodite), Douglas Coupland (Girlfriend in a Coma) and Elizabeth Wurtzel (Bitch...
...Author Arlie Hochschild, who visited 50 families over several years, wrote in Second Shift that sleep-deprived women work an extra month at home each year. More recently, University of Maryland sociologist John Robinson found that mothers still spend about four times as much time with children as fathers do. Psychologist Carin Rubenstein, author of The Sacrificial Mother, found that twice as many moms as dads are involved at school. Soccer moms make up a third of soccer coaches. When the real crunch comes, 83% of mothers stay home with a sick child, reading Goodnight Moon endlessly, compared with...