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...wouldn’t call myself an avid reader of non-fiction, and judging by the title, I wasn’t expecting Paul M. Barrett’s “American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion” to be a page turner. Not wanting to be a clichéd judger of book covers, I opened Barrett’s book—but with less than a healthy dose of enthusiasm. I’m not afraid to admit when I’m wrong. Though not without its share of flaws...
...number of good books in the last few years have toed the line between fact and fiction: they read like memoirs or autobiographies, but something pushes them into the realm of novel, whether it’s the implausible (as in Alice Sebold’s “The Lovely Bones”), the unlikely (as in Mitch Albom’s “For One More Day”), or simply a reconstruction of dialogues long gone. Usually, the publisher will help you out a little, labeling something as either fiction or memoir. But then we come...
...consequence is “Commander in Chief: How Truman, Johnson, and Bush Turned a Presidential Power into a Threat to America’s Future,” an imaginative piece of historical fiction that was somehow misplaced on the nonfiction shelves...
...concentration. Few resources were dedicated to the program, which was only offered to English concentrators and admitted fewer than 20 percent of applicants.Even after the advent of Option III, doubt about the merits of creative writing lingered. In 1979, Director of Expository Writing Richard Marius cancelled the only fiction offering, Expository Writing 13, even though it was the most popular section. He was concerned that fiction courses failed to teach students how to write expository prose. Although the decision was met with outrage by many students and even some Expository Writing preceptors, the course was never reinstated.Option III was eventually...
...Word Fact and fiction on Faust's feminism By DANIEL J. HEMEL Friday, February 16, 2007 Faust has been branded with the F-word by critics who have clearly never read her work, nor examined her qualifications...