Word: fictionizing
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...sessions in the electric chair, they dragged him, naked, to a damp cell...To keep him from sleeping they taped his lids to his eyebrows..." You would not want to push the comparison much further, except to say that both authors have a knack for turning Darwin into harrowing fiction...
...playboy known abroad for his affairs with Hollywood stars and at home for raping schoolgirls. Vargas Llosa plants Trujillo securely in his time and place, but the book's dictator also crosses temporal and physical boundaries to remind us that tyranny remains the source of Latin America's best fiction. Like Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The Autumn of the Patriarch, The Feast of the Goat confirms Balzac's observation that the novel is the private history of nations...
...film the royal Tenenbaums, supporting character and decadent author Eli Cash (Owen Wilson) becomes a household name with the publication of his best-selling novel “Old Custer,” a fantastical piece of fiction that plays with the concept of Custer’s having actually survived Little Big Horn. Cash, or the “James Joyce of the West,” crests on his newfound celebrity to score drugs, female companionship and war paint...
...became the genre that it is, which is no genre, or many genres. And we talked about this when we were doing it. I connected to some stuff that happened when I was a little guy reading Ray Bradbury. I loved those interior kind of quasi-science fiction stories, and we just found ourselves there, and loved where we were...
...Here in the U.S., where such nightmare black market scenarios thankfully remain in the realm of fiction, the money issue does have the potential to underscore the already painful divide between the country?s haves and have-nots. "The danger some people see in compensating survivors is the concern that it would have much more of a negative impact on a poor family than on a wealthy family," says Dr. Howard Brody, professor of family practice at the Center for Ethics and Humanities at Michigan State University. "People worry that we?ll end up taking organs from the poor...