Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Coupland's characters aren't particularly distinct, and the author doesn't give them much to do anyway; the stories' plots are frequently similar. They have grown up somewhat (some of them even have children and failing marriages of their own). Thankfully, they mostly avoid thirtysomething-ish whining, and none of them are particularly offensive. But then, that is part of the problem...
...Some of the texts of physics are so flaming in gender bias it's as if the author was writing for an exclusively male audience," Franklin says. She cites problems in which a physicist must save a beautiful woman drowning in a river. The book with that particular problem in it was written in 1965, but Franklin says she believes the male bias continues...
Felsher collected the narrative thread so that others could weave the story (most notably the authors of Time Inc.'s three volumes of corporate history, published by Atheneum from 1968-86). At first she helped staff members cull their files to decide what should be consigned to the wastebasket and what saved. Anything of historical interest went to the fledgling archives: Henry Luce's 1922 plans for the launch of TIME; March of Time radio transcripts; files from waggish Fortune editor and publisher Eric Hodgins, author of the best seller Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House ("He didn't write...
Unlike the rest of the working wounded, sick writers can turn their health problems into therapeutic books. Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor undoubtedly helped her and thousands of readers deal with cancer. William Styron's Darkness Visible benefited its author as well as others torpedoed by depression...
West faces infirmity with the same sort of confidence, seeing his medical history as part of "a big, holistic swoosh." The author of Lord Byron's Doctor gives his own case the Byronic treatment. "From my first chemistry set, I knew that I was an experiment too ... I walked and breathed immersed in a world not mine, not made of me" is a fair sample of his lyric urges. West's prose thrives on making connections: the interactions of hospital gadgetry with his own balky machinery; or how a late Beethoven quartet integrates opposing moods. West lists those moods...