Word: fictionizing
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Johnson pens these portraits in clean, spare prose, allowing the poignant stories to shine. One has the sense of being transported bodily to China; Johnson’s evocative descriptions of various Chinese locales are reminiscent of such fiction writers...
...only moments that achieve any sort of humanity in this movie are those that are probably closer to autobiography than fiction. David Duchovny actually did grow up in Greenwich Village in the 1970s and this fact shines through his otherwise lackluster writing. The portrait he paints of that time and place, as seen through a teenage boy’s eyes, is actually quite convincing...
...about a boy searching for answers about his father, who died in the attacks on the Twin Towers. By the mere virtue of the book’s “topic,” Foer has taken his place in American literary history by joining the handful of fiction writers willing to wrestle with the 9/11 terrorist attacks in their work...
Hollywood first became aware of alien visitors in the '50s, when the cold war was at its height, flying saucers were flitting over suburban barbecues, and Americans were feeling, perhaps justifiably, a little paranoid. Among the first of these science-fiction creature features was The Thing, a real scarer in which a huge and extremely unpleasant plant lands in the Arctic, the point man, so to speak, of an invasion by other vainglorious veggies. "You mean we're dealing with a walking carrot?" asks an indignant reporter...
Each year, 25 poets and 25 fiction writers are admitted to the two-year masters program. They attend workshops and seminars and everything is graded on a pass-fail basis, said acting co-director Marilynne Robinison, who won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction last week...