Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With The Golden Apples, published in 1949, Welty began being praised for her command of narrative technique. The Optimist's Daughter, 1972, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This year, a year that seems to be her year, she is on the bestseller lists with One Writer's Beginnings. The sun is indeed shining bright on her old Jackson home, on Pinehurst Street, where she was saying the other morning, "Do sit down. I'm going to raise a window." She said she was wondering whether she might not have sounded incoherent at a late hour...
...energetic curator of Harvard's Farnsworth and Woodberry Poetry Rooms at Lamont Library. Haviaras says he feels most closely in touch with his "life-fluids" at night, when he prefers to write. For years he has been filling his spare hours writing poetry and fiction, and this month Simon and Schuster published his second English novel. The Heroic...
...have vivid and powerful memories from those years, the kind that, for the sake of survival, one tends to suppress," Haviaras says, describing how he has only recently worked these years out through his fiction writing. "The last book left off at the crucial age of 12, and [The Heroic Age] roughly carries on the tale...
...small metal hook which, when pointed towards the mound and rotated to science fiction sounds out of "Lost in Space," was supposed to unnerve the visiting pitcher. Explained one bench-warming Engineer. "It makes him think he's gonns get the hook...
...FICTION: Edisto, Padgett Powell God's Pocket, Pete Dexter ∙ Slow Learner, Thomas Pynchon Sweeney Astray, Seamus Heaney Testing the Current, William McPherson ∙ The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera...