Word: fictionalizing
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...Clark took those 10 months in stride as just the latest challenge in her career. And working under one of the industry’s most terrifying bosses provided inspiration for Clark’s own novel, though she insists it is purely a work of fiction...
Flash forward two years and nationally the Democrats are (finally) in power, and the Harvard College Democrats appear to be the loftiest, most influential organization on campus. But their prominence on campus is now a mutated takeover, one that resembles some horrific virus from a Michael Crichton science-fiction saga. I’ve got the Center for Disease Control on speed dial because many of my liberal compatriots are infected by something that I fear may be highly contagious...
...Granta magazine’s “Best Young Novelists,” Uzodinma C. Iweala ’04, is venturing to Columbia’s medical school next year. But he has no plans to stop writing. “My next book is non-fiction, about HIV/AIDS, so I need to mature as a writer before I tackle something more difficult,” he said. Iweala’s first novel, “Beasts of No Nation,” is the fictional story of a child soldier in an unnamed West African country...
...School have claimed that the psychiatric disorder known as dissociative amnesia, or repressed memory, is a “culture-bound syndrome,” and has no scientific basis. Their argument is based on the conclusion that no evidence for the existence of repressed memory exists in literature, fiction or non-fiction, before 1800—while other psychological disorders like epilepsy and schizophrenia have been documented since ancient times. Since the onset of their literary quest over a year ago, the researchers at Harvard-affiliated Mclean hospital have promised $1,000 to anyone who can provide...
...chair, wearing a black fleece vest with a purple sport shirt underneath, Mailer could have been, on first glance, someone’s little old grandpa. But as soon as he began to speak, the notion of an innocent grandpa quickly disappeared. When speaking of his newest book, a fictional treatment of Hitler’s childhood, he referred to the dictator as “the opposite to Jesus” and touted the historical accuracy of the book. He also defended his choice to depict a very literal set of hellish demons as prime movers in Hitler?...