Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...narrator and title figure is Xuela Claudette Richardson, 70, a native of Dominica, by ancestry a mix of Carib, African and Scot, by emotional makeup surely part Kincaid. Since she has no mother (her father is dutiful but distant; in any case men are minor planets in the author's cosmology), she reinvents herself--as did Kincaid--and makes her way in the world by allying with various men, eventually marrying a decent, not very energetic white doctor, "a man trained to heal the sick, and in this he would succeed from time to time...
...television images of skinheads tattooed with swastikas and the firebombed houses of Germany's Turkish immigrants regularly cross paths with rerun footage of Brownshirts rampaging in the 1930s. Have the unholy dead returned to inhabit new bodies? Hasselbach's zombie-like voice, preserved to creepy effect by American co-author Tom Reiss, can almost make you think so. "As he lay on the ground, Frank and I kicked him in the neck, in the stomach, in the face, in the skull...and I was thinking, as I kicked, Sure, his bones are breaking beneath my feet...
...bottom-line realities in the motion-picture industry. Waiting to Exhale is about money, and Hollywood is a bottom-line town. That is why box-office receipts are kept track of so closely. When African-American talents such as Loretta Devine, Lela Rochon, director Forest Whitaker and author Terry McMillan become common household names like Madonna, Demi Moore, Ron Howard and Michael Crichton, then Hollywood will, I hope, produce more films that explore African-American life. Yes, ultimately some of these movies will be slick Hollywood trash. But only then will African Americans as a group have arrived--when...
...speculation swirled about the identity of the author of Primary Colors, a fictional account of the Clintons' 1992 campaign, contributor Walter Shapiro last week conducted an online interview with the writer. Excerpts...
...long story. I started off wanting to be pseudonymous, but Harold Evans [the publisher] decided to go all the way. My first reaction was: gimmicky. But I've really grown to love it ... I also wanted the book received on its own merits ... not on the identity of the author, whether I'm someone you've heard of or not ... I do wish I could share the secret with friends...