Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Will Win: With Globe winner Larry Flynt mysteriously absent, all three leaders are headed for a photo finish. Lone Star is the favorite among screenwriters, but Fargo has been racking up the pre-show awards--and weird speech patterns did the trick for Pulp Fiction...
...French and Franco-phone comics, past and present--the "naturalists," the "realists" and the "absurdists" (whose work may remind viewers of some of the more interesting and surreal experimentation done later by Robert Crumb and others in the psychedelic "head comix" of the American 1960s). In the category "Science Fiction and Fantasy," the visitor will find that a comic strip genre popular in nearly every country except, for whatever reason, the United States. Here you'll see the original incarnation of "Barbarella" in Jean-Claude Forest's slinky black-and-white panels and the classic work of Jean Giraud...
...character's skin." Clark explains that creating characters who live out one's fears, hopes and joys is in a way creating the truest kind of autobiography. Invoking the words of The New Yorker's Janet Malcomb, Clark said that "the only literature that is 100 percent true is fiction...
...writing as a journalist or whatever, one of the things that happens is that you learn to write under any circumstances--when the whole world comes crashing down on you. It gets progressively easier to write, say, 1,000 words a day," he says. The transition from nonfiction to fiction was not awkward for Clark. "There is not a great distinction between the two," he says, explaining that he wrote River of the West as a story that happened to be based on actual events...
...Writers often disguise their lives as fiction," Leavitt tells Ben near the end of the novella. "The thing they almost never do is disguise fiction as their lives." This is not quite true. Paul Theroux offered an invented autobiography last year in My Other Life, and Philip Roth did much the same in 1993 in Operation Shylock. The Term Paper Artist is as playful as those works and every bit as good...