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...Ibis appears on our horizon off the coast of India in 1838 - a period often romanticized in fiction through narratives of imperial bravado. But this won't do for Ghosh, a veteran postcolonialist. He instead depicts India as it most likely was under the thumb of Britain's East India Company. Its once bounteous countryside is now run by Company edict, with farmers ordered to grow poppies to feed colossal opium factories, in whose noxious environs even monkeys slump in "a miasma of lethargy." Their fields given over to drug cultivation, thousands of starving, impoverished villagers leave for new pastures...
...found herself on the shortlist for one of the highest honors that a young writer can receive: the Dylan Thomas Prize, one of the world’s highest-paying literary awards. But Dovey, who spent her college years immersed in film and farms rather than fiction, is certainly not the stereotypical writer-prodigy. The budding author took some time to chat with FM about her past exploits and present pursuits.1. Fifteen Minutes (FM): With that accent of yours, you can’t be a Boston native. Where are you from? Ceridwen Dovey (CD): That?...
...ominously infested with suicides, including that of the hero's father, who cooks his own head in a microwave. But back then, Wallace seemed invulnerable. How could a man who had put such crowds of people on the page--Wallace's ear for dialogue was unmatched in contemporary fiction--truly be lonely? Once you've gone inside the mind of a critically burned toddler, as Wallace did in his short story "Incarnations of Burned Children," what horrors can't you face? When he accepted a professorship of creative writing at Pomona College in 2002 and then got married...
...Quasi-reality-show star LAUREN CONRAD scores three-book deal for quasi fiction...
Wallace committed suicide on Friday, at the age of 46. He might be remembered as the guy who brought footnotes back (his fiction is full of them), or the person who magnified Thomas Pynchon's reader-reaction paranoia into post-modern mega-epic. He did do those things. But Wallace was also the greatest horror novelist ever. In Infinite Jest a corporation-run unified North America of the near-future (dates have been replaced by sponsor names, such as the Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar) is being decimated by a videotape so entertaining that people watch...