Word: fictionalizes
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...past - plus stubborn poverty, environmental degradation, corruption and an aids epidemic that has left 1 out of 5 adults hiv positive. But the literacy rate is a respectable 86%, and 5,000 new titles are published each year. Besides, as in India and other poor countries that export fiction, great troubles can make for great novels. Asked if the end of apartheid would take the zip out of South African fiction, Gordimer once responded: "On the contrary. We've got plenty of problems." Gordimer's Get a Life, published this month in Britain and the U.S., is a good example...
...mammal, he corrects, ineffectually. This improbable triangle ripens gently until its heart-breaking conclusion. Meanwhile, the new, tourism-obsessed, environmentally threatened South Africa festers in the background. A masterpiece of understatement, The Whale Caller is the real winner among this year's crop of South African fiction. What about future vintages? Next year will see new novels by Mark Behr, Patricia Schonstein and other young whites who have made their mark since apartheid's fall. Expect more from Damon Galgut and Pamela Jooste, as well as nonwhite stars like Achmat Dangor, E.K.M. Dido, Niq Mhlongo, Mongane Wally Serote, Miriam Tlali...
Media trend spotting can be fun. Here's one I've noticed. Pulp Fiction (1994), Magnolia (1999) and this year's Crash are all movies that use multiple, seemingly unrelated storylines weaving across each other or culminating in one climactic event. Graphic novels have also started to explore this technique. Earlier this year Dan Clowes' impressive Ice Haven (a repackaging of his comic book Eightball #22) bounced among the denizens of a suburban town. The latest book to use this style, Tricked (Top Shelf Productions; $20), by Alex Robinson, comes from an author who works in large scale. His first...
...don’t take rests,” Murakami says cheerfully. He wakes up at four every morning to write, and always exercises at least an hour a day. He writes fiction for five or six months of the year, and the rest of the time writes nonfiction or translates...
...William Wright’s latest book, “Harvard’s Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals.” But just as Wright’s characters don drag, his book takes on a masquerade of sorts. At times, it is fiction dressed as fact.To be sure, Wright ensconced himself in the bowels of Pusey Library for many months while researching the book—in which he paints a portrait of a Harvard campus gripped by homophobic hysteria. In 1920, a secret tribunal under the aegis of then-University President A. Lawrence...