Word: authors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decided not to include this as a chapter in Huckleberry Finn. The tale is perhaps too completely black; it evokes throughout a strange mixture of gut-laughter and gut-fear. One thing for sure: having read it, you won't think the same of Huckleberry Finn, or its avuncular author, again. Not for abjurers of dead baby jokes...
NORMAN Mailer put a new twist on the ex-con-as-artist theme a while back when he got felon and author Jack Henry Abbott released from prison and back on the streets, where he killed again. Although director John Hancock is a little less daring in his treatment of the theme, his Weeds is one weird melange of a movie...
Washington Post reviewer Robert H. Williams wrote that Vilmure "has command of all [the elements of modern fiction]." And the New York Times Book Review praised the author's talent, noting the book's "compelling imagery, irony and framing device...
...personally very proud of it, but it will probably be the end of my career," said the aspiring author, only half in jest. Vilmure said the responses to his second novel "have been discouraging," and said he has not yet been able to find a publisher...
...Thurow, author of the "Zero Sum Society," said the world is entering what he called a "black hole," which will pull economies down and turn traditional rules on their head...