Word: fictionalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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JIMMY CARTER may one day win the Nobel Peace Prize, but a Nobel for Literature probably isn't in his future--despite the impending publication of his first work of fiction, The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer. This story of a kindly sea monster who befriends a crippled boy is illustrated by AMY CARTER, now a graduate art student, and will be published in November. How did dad and daughter work together? "Amy's illustrations startled me at first, but I have grown to love them," says Carter, who created the tale for his children when they were young. The Prez...
...Science fiction? The apocalyptic vision of a doomsday cult? No, this disastrous scenario came last week from the sober pages of the journal Science. A team of U.S. and Chinese researchers studying the remains of volcanoes that began erupting 250 million years ago reported that according to radioactive dating, the eruptions coincided in geologic time with one of the great unexplained cataclysms in earth's history--a mass extinction at the end of the Permian period that wiped out up to 95% of all ocean-dwelling species and at least 70% of land-dwelling vertebrates...
...reached this week with the announcement that "The Bridges of Madison County" has fallen off the New York Times bestseller list, ending a 162-week run during which the book sold 10 million copies. "Bridges" first hit the list in August 1992, and has stayed there longer than any fiction book since "The Robe" captivated readers in the 1950's for 178 straight weeks. "People got the book, the movie, the calendar, the follow-up books, the record," says Luscombe. "But when they released the scent, people realized this whole thing was just a tired marketing ploy and they lost...
Artistic license has expired on shtick like that, and further critical explication of the separate realms of fact and fiction can no longer insulate the comedy from the offense . But the sexual obsession and obscenities are intrinsic to Sabbath's exaggerated character as a dirty old man. There is much humor in what makes us uneasy, and Roth extracts it, as he has done for nearly 40 years, with a technique and verbal flair unmatched by his contemporaries. Sabbath the houseguest rummaging through a teenager's underwear drawer or attempting to seduce his host's wife is the sort...
...busy, workmanlike novelist, but except for that single volume, not a great one. An earlier novel, The Last Picture Show, caught scraps of magic with its misty recollection of long-gone boyhood. Terms of Endearment worked well and deserved its success. Some of the author's other modern-day fiction (Texasville; Evening Star) has been merely expert and forgettable...