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The writer runs the risk of making mistakes himself sometimes, of hurting others by using them in his fiction. "Yes, I agree. All writers worry about that. Up to now, I've tended to avoid the biographical donne. I need only a drop of biography to inspire me, to set...
Coals to Newcastle. Daniel Defoe was once put in the stocks in 18th century London for writing a treatise against the political power of the church. He promptly penned a poem about the experience and had it hawked in the very street where he was taking his punishment. A similar...
From a modest beginning in the Boston area a year ago (TIME, April 19), the buying and selling of fake term papers has grown into a nationwide, multimillion-dollar business. Ads in major campus newspapers have attracted thousands of students, who pay the going rate of $3 per page on...
Brautigan is at his best when he lets fancy take over completely. In "The Literary Life In California 1964" he describes a bookstore browser skeptically looking through one of his own books. After a few minutes of nervous indecision the man takes out a penny and tosses it. After looking...
Because she concentrated so fiercely on the brutalizing effects of power and money, Ivy Compton-Burnett has often been accused of being pitiless and even amoral. She was as unsparing as Ibsen in visiting the sins of parents on their children, and there are few more starkly evil women in...