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...Fast Facts: • Krugman, 55, grew up on Long Island. As a child he developed a keen interest in science fiction novelist Isaac Asimov, whom he credited in a 1995 essay with nudging him toward the study of economics
Jonathan Carroll’s special blend of novel resists attempts to classify it. It’s not science fiction, nor is it fantasy, nor is it realistic. His newest novel, “The Ghost in Love,” tells the story of a man who is fated to die but doesn’t; his ghost appears to tie up lose ends but finds that his body is still alive. The story is his attempt to reconcile his whole self—ghost, past, present, and future. Carroll, who is to speak at the Harvard Book...
...support the principle that poor people's living conditions must be improved. Yet if we do this and Earth's population continues to rise, resources will be consumed and waste generated at an ever faster rate. What are we thinking? The planet of the apes is no longer science fiction. We are living on it. André Brossé, Vosselaar, Belgium...
John Lennon: The Life By Philip Norman; out now More moving and less plausible than most fiction, Lennon's life is one of the great 20th century fables, and it's told here definitively by a major Beatles scholar. Even as Lennon went from young tough to global pop star to hippie prophet, he never ceased to be a shattered, motherless little boy. When have so many ever followed anyone so lost...
...love to rip apart English professor James Wood’s distilled volume of literary wisdom with a series of detached, postmodern, snarling riffs. But I can’t. “How Fiction Works” is just too pleasant a read. With a soft, avuncular tone, Wood sets out to investigate a fundamental question—how authors utilize both verisimilitude and artifice to invoke the real—by surveying a series of writing fundamentals. He weaves in and out of novels and ideas through a series of thought-stanzas until reaching his goal: a satisfying...