Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Zelnick, an ABC News correspondent and author of Backfire: a Reporter Looks at Affirmative Action, attacked racial-preference programs, asserting that they amount to discrimination against non-blacks...
...same time, the author keeps a running commentary on the nature of history and storytelling. Martinez bases the shifting structure of his story on the idea that "nothing is like anything else, nothing is ever just one story, but a net that each person weaves without knowing the overall pattern." Martinez realizes that the work of other artists who have attempted to capture Evita is part of this patchwork, and he mentions fellow Argentinean writers Rodolfo Walsh and Jorge Luis Borges frequently. He even discusses the opera by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, calling it precisely the simplification...
Kudos on yet another piece of irresponsible journalism in regards to the Coop, this time in the form of Molly Hennessy-Fiske's "Crashing the Coop" (Feb. 1, 1997). As was evinced by my brief conversation with the author as she was researching the story, as well as observing her interactions with other interviewees, Miss Hennessy-Fiske's intentions were not to provide a fair account of bookselling at the Coop, but rather to push an agenda. I, in turn, would like to push mine...
Textbooks is not a money-making division for the Coop, an important fact that the author neglected to include in her diatribe. Secondly, there are no profits, per se, at the Coop. All profits derived from member sales (i.e. when you give your Coop number at the cash register) are returned to members in the form of a rebate at the end of each fiscal year. Unfortunately, the Coop has not returned a profit in recent years, only adding to student skepticism about the store...
...records, In the Deep Midwinter (Picador USA; 278 pages; $23) homes in on these four fallen but forgivable souls as they try to find the right way to act in a world where women smoke but never swear, and pregnancy and infidelity can destroy. It's no coincidence that author Robert Clark sets his debut novel at precisely the moment when America's confidence in leading the world and its belief in its higher myths about itself began to crack...