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...over the past couple of years, vanity publishing has become practically respectable. As the technical challenges have decreased--you can turn a Word document on your hard drive into a self-published novel on Amazon's Kindle store in about five minutes--so has the stigma. Giga-selling fantasist Christopher Paolini started as a self-published author. After Brunonia Barry self-published her novel The Lace Reader in 2007, William Morrow picked it up and gave her a two-book deal worth $2 million. The fact that William P. Young's The Shack was initially self-published hasn't stopped...
Only one story ventures into the supernatural. The endpiece, The Green Road to Quephanda, speaks directly of the plight of the genre writer who cannot get himself taken seriously. The central character is a fantasist who keeps publishing to small sales and critical silence. Unable to bear the inattention any longer, he commits suicide, and in that moment his fantasy world is transferred to the mind of one previously condescending friend. Or, as Rendell puts it in the story's poignant final lines, which perhaps should be read as her own cri de coeur, "He reached his audience, he reached...
...laid to rest. The press called for the resignation of a spokesman for Prime Minister Tony Blair who suggested that Kelly was a Walter Mitty fantasist. Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon was criticized for going on holiday instead of attending the funeral. Wave of Protest ICELAND The government's announcement that it was to re-start whaling after a 14-year break met with protests from environmental groups, such as the World Wildlife Fund, and the tourist industry. The International Whaling Commission approved a plan to kill 38 minke whales for "scientific research"; the WWF charged that the plan is really...
...usually succeeds. I am pleased to note, for example, that Pin learns nothing in the course of the novel. In writing about Calvino upon his death in 1985, Gore Vidal said, "He looks; he describes; he has a scientist's respect for data (the opposite of the surrealist or fantasist)." He is here absolutely right; nothing that happens is unbelievable (although a prison escape strains credulity), but it is all quite weird and foreign to a life lived outside of wartime...
...long and powerful harangue about the death of the man Stone keeps calling "the slain young king." What are the rules of Stone's game? Is Stone functioning as commercial entertainer? Propagandist? Documentary filmmaker? Historian? Journalist? Fantasist? Sensationalist? Paranoid conspiracy-monger? Lone hero crusading for the truth against a venal Establishment? Answer: some of the above...