Word: fictionalizes
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...gifts. While his contemporaries practiced the rock-ribbed realism of Hemingway and Carver or the high-concept contraptions of the metafictionists, Updike conducted his pursuit of eloquence and wit almost alone. Ironically, it was sometimes held against him, and he was tagged a lightweight. (See the top 10 fiction books...
...himself as more an artisan than an artist, and he produced nearly a book a year for much of his life - not just novels but short stories, book reviews, memoir and art criticism. His relentless curiosity sometimes led him to attempt experiments that were beyond his range: science fiction in Toward the End of Time, for example, and a retelling of the Hamlet story in Gertrude and Claudius. But at his very best, as in the Rabbit novels - two of which won Pulitzer Prizes - or his 1968 shocker, Couples, in which he dove fearlessly into the sexual revolution, he looked...
...boyhood, there were books everywhere. Your piano teacher had books, and there were lending libraries everywhere - your department store had a lending library. Books are still bought, and you see them being read in airplanes, but it's a last resort, isn't it? And the category of 'literary fiction' has sprung up recently to torment people like me who just set out to write books, and if anybody wanted to read them, terrific, the more the merrier...
...should nominate [Colorado Rep.] Tom Tancredo." - as an adviser to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, joking that global warming would fare better as a 2008 campaign issue if the GOP picked a candidate skeptical on the science. Tancredo had recently told the Associated Press that the last work of fiction he read was An Inconvenient Truth by former Vice President Al Gore (Environment & Energy News...
...still covered in metal shavings and PVC dust. Reality is everywhere in Daemon, and it's exciting and scary. But who wants to be excited and scared all the time? The Associate is high-calorie comfort food, a thriller that doesn't actually thrill. (See the top 10 fiction books...