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When some of them took the bait, Roth went even further. Nathan Zuckerman, the narrator of The Ghost Writer (1979), seems identical to Roth in everything from his vocation (writer) and faith (Jewish) to his Newark childhood. (Tarnapol at least grew up in the Bronx.) What is more, Zuckerman is facing the same dilemma that Roth did, with considerable attendant publicity early in his career; he has been accused of writing a story involving misbehaving Jews that, other Jews claim, will confirm anti-Semitic prejudices in Gentile readers...
...born in Thailand b) can take out Bronstein and Sharon Stone c) is already signed up for Roger Corman's Gator Bait 3: Deadly but Immobile d) will be dead before you read this...
...quality of work in "Bizarro Comics" definitely reaches the higher, but still limited, level set for it. But readers looking forward to radical reinterpretations of American icons may feel suckered by a bait and switch. Others readers drawn in by the superheroes will be missing out on the truly uninhibited voices they could have been introduced to. DC just needs to have the courage of their convictions...
...been on Microsoft's case, in one form or another, for over five years now. His remedy ruling was effectively a one-fingered salute to the appeals court: if this is wrong, it said, don't bring it back to me. He must have known they'd take the bait. It didn't matter: his point had been made, and made loudly...
...first's themes, somehow lacking" because the similarly hypothetical author "tries to tackle too much." As it happens, there is some recapitulation in Whitehead's second novel--race in America, the trials of assimilation facing aspiring blacks--but only a coolly confident writer would dangle such alluring bait before potential reviewers. Whitehead won't get a bite here...