Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many inquiries about the mysteries of the triangle with a prepared handout that presents a rational explanation of the hazards in the area. "It has been our experience," the Coast Guard says, "that the combined forces of nature and unpredictability of mankind outdo even the most farfetched science fiction many times each year." The handout notes that the triangle is one of two places where magnetic compasses point to true north-and thus may be confusing to navigators who are not used to compass variations...
Faith's story is philosophical noodling, more smoky legend than shoes-in-the-dirt fiction. What saves it from arch ness is the warmth and sense of the telling. The 26-year-old author is black, and variously a cartoonist, TV writer-producer and philosopher, currently teaching at New York's Stony Brook. More than anything, his book is a wry comment on the tension felt by a black intellectual. It shows enough narrative strength, though, for the reader to hope that Johnson will go on to try a straight forward novel...
...name, get a birth certificate, then a Social Security number, and you're a new person." That may seem unlikely for a man who hoped to be leader of the Labor Party. But until some new evidence turns up, virtually all explanations of the stranger-than-fiction case of John Stonehouse have equal plausibility...
With seven books published in the past five years, Novelist John Gardner, has confounded the theory that quality can only come slowly, and in small doses. Gardner is a professor of English who has managed to lob serious, stylistically adventuresome fiction over the barricades of academic coteries and onto the middle levels of America's bestseller lists. He is also a fabulist with a heart, capable of making the arcane both accessible and emotionally stirring. Near the end of The King's Indian, Gardner briefly introduces himself as a man who, "with the help of Poe and Melville...
LOOK AT THE HARLEQUINS by Vladimir Nabokov. At 75, the old artificer has written a sly, funny fiction about an exiled Russian nobleman and novelist who resembles a certain writer with the initials...