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...contrast, Isabel Allende's Eliza Sommers runs circles around everyone else in Daughter of Fortune. Allende, raised in Chile and currently residing in California, is probably the most widely read Latin American woman novelist ever published. She transfers a variation of this distinction to Eliza, who breaks every rule of 19th century Valparaiso society to seek her callow lover in gold-crazed California...
...fiction. And as a writer of fiction, I have crossed that line innumerable times. Sirinsky says, "The interweaving of fact and fiction has no place in a biography." That's fine if you imagine that biographies are by and large truthful. They are not. As anyone who has ever attempted to write a "true" account of an actual event knows, the very act of putting pen to paper creates a veil of artifice that is drawn over the subject in question. If anything, Morris' technique strikes me as honest. He views his subject through the veil of fiction...
Developer Douglas Durst built an amazing structure over Times Square. I thought it was the best-looking building I'd ever seen. I agree that the architecture of the '90s going into the 21st century is supposed to show some style. GREGORY GERMAN, AGE 11 Brookline, Mass...
...these fears warranted? By every measure, the answer is no. With both homicides and accidental deaths steeply declining, the workplace is safer than ever. You're twice as likely to get struck by lightning as to be murdered by a co-worker. While the number of homicides among co-workers in 1998 remained roughly the same as in 1993, the odds of being murdered by a colleague have declined because the work force has grown by 12 million since then. Workplace homicides of all types (whether by workers or strangers) have fallen from...
...thought all the really big dinosaurs had long since been found, think again. Paleontologists digging in Oklahoma have uncovered bones from the tallest dinosaur ever. Judging from its 5-ft.-long vertebrae, scientists estimate that the monster's neck alone stretched an incredible...