Word: detailism
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...certainly deserves as fine a book as "Peanuts: The Art of Charles Schulz." Kidd has done a wonderful job of presenting this important artist's work in a prestige format. Even non-"Peanuts" fans can marvel at the dazzling layouts and attention to detail. Books like this elevate not just the subject but the medium as a whole. Oh yeah, and it's pretty funny...
Egan’s greatest achievement is the cast of characters she assembles, each of whom we come to know in painstaking, brutally honest and innovative detail, but whose actions and thoughts we can never quite predict. Egan presents her characters as is, indifferent to whether we like them, never purporting to explain them completely. We remain emotionally invested in characters who do despicable things...
Atwood spared no detail in recounting her past embarrassments, both personal and public—her Home Economics opera in high school starring Orlon™ and Nylon™ (“Let’s just say that it concluded with the creation of a new synthetic fabric”); her first book signing, which took place in the men’s underwear department of the Hudson’s Bay department store in 1969 (“I sold two Edible Wom[e]n all day”); the scandalous extramarital affair that began...
...scene is a representative one in the political life of a man whose energy, earnestness and sheer charisma drove those who met him to awe. Morris’ new biography, Theodore Rex, covers in dramatic detail the Roosevelt administrations (1901-9) and, more importantly, their leader, whom more than one commentator characterized as the supreme political personality of his time. The previous installment of Morris’ Roosevelt trilogy, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, won a Pulitzer Prize...
...scene is a representative one in the political life of a man whose energy, earnestness and sheer charisma drove those who met him to awe. Morris’ new biography, Theodore Rex, covers in dramatic detail the Roosevelt administrations (1901-9) and, more importantly, their leader, whom more than one commentator characterized as the supreme political personality of his time. The previous installment of Morris’ Roosevelt trilogy, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, won a Pulitzer Prize...