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...narrator of the book, Henry L’Hôte, gives up writing after a successful first novel. Is Henry’s story a roman à clef for your own experiences...

Author: By Anna M. Yeung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Yann Martel | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

When Polanski hooked up with the novelist Robert Harris, best known for his Roman fictions Pompeii and Imperium, for a film version of Harris's roman-a-clef The Ghost, he might have felt that the book had been written from his own recipe for paranoid suspense. It's the story of a writer of celebrity lives - a magician's best-seller, for instance, titled I Came, I Sawed, I Conquered - hired to add some marketable pizzazz to the memoirs of Adam Lang, a retired British Prime Minister of the Tony Blair stripe. He's called in on this rush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ghost Writer: Polanski Escapes into His Cinema Nightmares | 2/20/2010 | See Source »

Grubman, Lizzie •claim by that roman clef by former employee of - which features a drunken or drugged publicist angrily backing her car into a crowd outside a nightclub - "isn't about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

...situations and the settings and the places involved are things I have to understand, to know about, otherwise I wouldn’t feel comfortable writing about it authentically,” Kaplan says. However, the young author denies that her novel falls into the roman à clef genre.“This isn’t meant to be my, and certainly isn’t, my exposé,” Kaplan says. “The characters are not Marlborough girls. I am not Becky Miller.” In fact, Kaplan had to disappoint people...

Author: By Anna M. Yeung, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Isabel E. Kaplan ’12 | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...Carrie and Mr. Big have finally decided to migrate red, but he gets clef toed and is a how son at the my encore. Instead of her oh no money, Carrie spends time at a Mars excretion being consolidates in the company of her patchy timesfriends, who have their own lob sperm. Miranda has boredom issues with Steve, who is briefly a flu fun hit, provoking her to have lime. Charlotte, who has radiated glop but still hopes to vibe right, finds out that she angers pint. And Samantha gets axe sully distracted by the sight of a lewd lewd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex and the City: Kinda Into You | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

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