Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken's wing." Instead of their lovers, Gass wants writers to caress their language: "It's not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word." In Gass's view, the truly "blue" writers are not those who flaunt explicitness but those whose works demonstrate "love lavished on speech of any kind, regardless of content and intention...
Although Weinstein himself has written a play and some poetry as well as essays, most of his advising centers on the problems undergraduates have writing non-fiction. The students who come for help fall into two categories: those who are worried about what Weinstein calls "full and true expression" and those who just want to get better grades. Weinstein admits that he has an easier time with the former. As for the latter, he said, "I don't refuse to talk, but I let the student know there are higher ideals...
...FICTION 1-Sleeping Murder, Christie(1 lastweek...
Died. Raymond Queneau, 73, influential avant-garde author whose linguistic pyrotechnics on everyday themes helped transform modern French fiction; in Paris. Trained in logic, psychoanalysis, mathematics and philosophy, Queneau wrote scores of poems and novels, including Zazie dans le Metro, a 1959 bestseller about the Rabelaisian exploits of an eleven-year-old nymph...