Word: authorly
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DIED. HENRY ROTH, 89, author of the acclaimed 1934 novel Call It Sleep, about a Jewish immigrant boy's life in a New York City slum; in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Despite his youthful success, he failed to publish another novel for 60 years...
...waters. Other stars, from Fatty Arbuckle to Michael Jackson, have been tainted by criminal charges or allegations, but none has weathered a murder trial whose every evidentiary twist and turn was witnessed by the entire nation. The same values-free commercialism that enabled Simpson to become a best-selling author while still in jail is now turning against him. The controversy surrounding him has made Simpson too much of a risk for those who depend on the goodwill of a mass audience...
...come back into the room/where you've been living/all along," declares the displaced narrator of the collection's first poem, "You Come Back." Her seemingly simple question, "What been going on while I was away?" could easily apply to the author herself who, after a prolific decade spent writing novels and short stories, has returned to the politics or, perhaps, anti-politics of poetry. Reading these latest poems, one starts to miss Atwood-the-novelist a little bit. The author's brilliance still lies in her prose, and the new book is not a landmark like...
Montague's book, which the author describes as a "good representation" of his work, includes two selections which have never been published before in the United States, one of which has not been published previously. "I think what they tried to do was put [the poems] together so it seemed like a new book," he said...
...precisely because of these uncensored recollections and the insights they arouse that the memoir of an honest man often reveals more than the author intends or recognizes. Morrow's luminous study of self, spurred by a medical crisis, strikes an unexpectedly universal chord. Every man is Everyman, and so the author deals not only with the inner torment of Lance Morrow but also with that...