Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprisingly, the amnesic society behaves much like the amnesic individual. The Korsakoffian patient, for example, fills in his gaps with fiction. He makes up stories, often gigantic confabulations, to make historical ends meet. The video culture too fills in the gaps of real life with mountains of fiction. (The average American absorbs more make-believe drama in a year than his ancestors did in a lifetime.) And it ties history's loose ends with a form of fabrication it calls docudrama...
...textbooks, and a lot of the rest is coffee table and children's books, there is surprisingly little left in the way of good reading. If you are looking for basic literature, the Coop has it, and one advantage is that you can charge it, but even the fiction selection can be beaten at several of the other stores...
...stocks a huge supply of coffee table books, and has a good children's books section. As well, it is another strong fiction store and the paperback books are discounted 10 percent...
Science Fantasy Bookstore (8 JFK St.) carries new, used and out-of-print science fiction. Seven Stars (58 JFK St.) and Sky Light Books (111 Mt. Auburn St.) have new age books and crystals. Both of them also offer classes and workshops in new age philosophy. And The Thomas More Bookshop (1352 Mass. Ave.) carries books in philosophy and religion...
...SECRET HISTORY by Paul Theroux (Putnam; $21.95). Theroux has grown famous writing both novels and travel books. Now he produces an entertaining fiction about a man who does both, a teasingly autobiographical portrait of the artist as a young stud...