Word: fictionizing
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This week Joe Klein puts the nine announced Democratic candidates for President on the couch and offers a prescription for fixing the party's chronic election woes. From his days covering politics for Rolling Stone, New York, Newsweek and the New Yorker to his best-selling work of fiction--as Anonymous, he wrote Primary Colors, the scaldingly funny roman a clef about Bill Clinton--Joe has emerged as one of America's premier political journalists. I'm thrilled to have him at TIME, even if he occasionally questions the wisdom of hitting the road for another round of motel rooms...
...firm. His job is to find a formula for immortality. But Crake has larger plans. He thinks of the human race as a boundless opportunity for creative meddling. Oryx is an Asian girl whom Jimmy first glimpses on a child-porn website, then meets years later through Crake. Literary fiction is all about nuance. Science fiction is an open invitation to moralizing. In a genre that lets you create your own world, who can resist the temptation merely to blow it all up while shaking a head at what fools these mortals be? Not Atwood. What's missing here...
...released in France to great fanfare at the end of last month, is his report on a year of remarkable research that took him from the urban wastelands of Karachi to Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, from London to Dubai and Bosnia, and from fact to a kind of fiction. In retracing Pearl's last steps - the story that got him killed - Lévy concludes that the reporter's kidnapping, decapitation and dismemberment was essentially a "crime of state" that implicates parts of the Pakistani government. And it is in Pakistan, he believes, where al-Qaeda's "madmen...
...Xanadu—but Jim Weatherall ’05 and Runal Mehta ’03-’04 have their own big designs in the works. The two have been working for months to found the new campus magazine, Xanadu, which will feature creative student fiction and non-fiction...
...don’t feel like there are enough places for undergraduates to publish prose-fiction, personal essays, all kinds of essays,” Weatherall says...