Word: fictionalizing
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...news closely over the last eight years, or looked into the history of our 43rd president, there are no real revelations to be found in W. But what may surprise both Bush experts and newcomers alike is the breadth of sources used in constructing this piece of historical fiction. Taken on its own, the "W. Film Guide" is a useful hub of Bush anecdotes, psychoanalysis and chronology, charting the rise and fall of this unlikely world leader...
...novel's success was all the more surprising given the quiet nature of Petterson's storytelling. His characters live mostly inside their heads; outside, they can be found in small villages in Scandinavia, drinking, chopping wood, fighting, reading, remembering. It's hardly the stuff of flashy, cosmopolitan fiction-without-borders...
University President Drew G. Faust’s latest civil war book was named a finalist yesterday for the 2008 National Book Award in non-fiction. “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War” is one of five books nominated in that category by the National Book Foundation, the non-profit literary foundation that gives out the awards. The winner will be announced next month in New York City. Faust’s sixth book takes on how Americans managed and understood death during the Civil War, her area of scholarly expertise. Published...
...responsibility to ensure that the living conditions of poor people all over the world are improved, but this improvement will mean more consumption, more problems with food and resources and more garbage. What do we think we're up to? The planet of the apes is no longer science fiction - we are living on it. André Brossé, VOSSELAAR, BELGIUM...
...approaches and themes in mainstream stories, or vice versa. It seems to me that you get the best of both worlds in that way. And in fact, the ultimate argument I would make is that there is essentially just one world if you're talking about good fiction...