Word: detailism
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...Oprah's influence on her magazine transcends attention to detail. O is peopled with her extended network of powerful individuals and talk-show guests. A centerpiece of the premiere issue is an interview conducted by Oprah with Camille Cosby--wife of Bill Cosby, grieving mother of the murdered Ennis Cosby and, of course, Oprah's close personal friend. O's financial, health, relationship and spiritual experts (Suze Orman, Bob Greene, Philip McGraw, Gary Zukav) are all frequent guests on Oprah's show...
Connors said yesterday he could not speak in detail about the Fay prize without breaching his attorney/client privilege with the University...
Many an aspiring writer has heard the sage advice to "write what you know." It is evident that Cambridge native Mameve Medwed is doing just that in her latest novel, Host Family. She knows Cambridge well. Very well. So well, in fact, that she has laid out every detail of it for the reader. From the Loeb to Mr. Bartley's to Pennypacker to Brattle Street, nothing is left to the imagination. If you're looking for subtlety, Host Family is not the book...
...defeat of the Assyrian army may not have much in common. But in Divine Mirrors: The Madonna Unveiled, curated by Melissa Katz at the Davis Museum at Wellesley, they do. The exhibit combines works of art on these subjects with a text rich in Biblical reference and historical detail to show changing perceptions of the Virgin Mary in different cultures over the past nine centuries...
This selective fiddling with history constantly distracts the reader from the fictional surface of Oates' narrative. When a detail looks wrong, at odds with what is known, is Oates inventing it (and if so, to what purpose?), or has she simply made a mistake? Why does she put a video camera in the hands of a fan in 1954? Why does she have the ex-Athlete, musing on his baseball career, think of "playoffs and the Series" when playoffs would not occur until 15 years later...