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...professor also tried his hand as a novelist, telling The Crimson in 1989 that he preferred composing his works of fiction over writing economic studies. He was "the only author I’m aware of who had bestsellers on the fiction and nonfiction lists at the same moment," Parker said...
...from “Fiddler on the Roof” at times and “The Great Gatsby” at others, “Playboy” idealizes youth and beauty while acknowledging the fleeting quality of the two. It does so with a flair for the fictional that is typical of its native Ireland; no matter what happens, the characters all prize a good story.All the actors really nail their roles; although the thick Irish accents of the cast make the dialogue difficult to understand at first, they are well-done. The leads are performed...
...evidence in, ‘theological debates’ among the enlightened masses. In a culture where a talk show host’s approval immortalizes novels, where the most well-known humanitarian is a rock star, and where movie stars can popularize a religion created by a science fiction novelist, we cannot expect much in the way of literary and intellectual discrimination...
...American fiction is in asatirical mood. Sometime in the 1990s--David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest makes a handy point of reference for weary travelers-- the earnest, rock-hewn realism of the Raymond Carver school gave way to a more fluid, molten hyperrealism. The widespread conviction that truth has become stranger than fiction triggered a kind of strangeness inflation, an arms race of exaggeration, wherein novelists satirically augment and amp up and overclock their fictions in an attempt to keep up with the sheer implausibility of real life...
...addition to his work in his academic discipline, Galbraith also wrote several novels. He told The Crimson in 1989 that he preferred composing fiction over writing economic studies...