Word: fiction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision of director of Expository Writing Richard Marius to cancel the program's fiction section sparked angry debate from both students and staff. Marius said he cancelled the section because he is "not convinced that students in fiction know how to write an expository essay." But Diana Thomson, a fiction teacher, said Marius cancelled the program because of personal and philosophical conflict between...
Class conflict makes for good fiction, and in Elkin's novels the great social leveler is death. "Of course I'm obsessed with death," he admits. "The first words of my first book were 'Everybody dies.' But I'm also obsessed with death's alternative, which is life...
...FICTION: A Bend in the River...
...FICTION 1. The Matarese Circle, Ludlum (I last week...
...spinning web of connections made and missed, the spiritual passings and associations that the artifacts bring to mind. Not stirring stuff perhaps, but resolutely, even defiantly individual. And as Elizabeth Hardwick writes in this beautiful and opaque short book, which is certainly not autobiography but not quite fiction...