Word: fictions
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Since 1915 Houghton Mifflin has published a yearly collection of The Best American Short Stories, an anthology of short fiction published in magazines across the United States and Canada in the previous year. For each volume, one of the nation's most distinguished novelists is chosen to be the guest editor (recent past editors include Richard Ford, Louise Erdrich, and Jane Smiley). The editor is blindly presented with 120 stories, chosen by the series editor, Katrina Kenison. Blind presentation means that the authors names are concealed up until publication of the selection. This year's guest editor John Edgar Wideman...
...fiction. It is an excuse to justify what he has done," Murphy said. "Mental illness was not in the driver's seat...
...peculiarities, he had initiated in the school's cafeteria a monthly dinner discussion dedicated to making its way through the book a chapter at a time. Instead of the academics and rabbis who were his usual conversation partners, however, he stocked the group with an interfaith roster of fiction writers, hoping they might have insight into human character if not into Midrash. "If I could make the patriarchs sacred again," he says, "maybe I could make some sense of my own life...
...pols and pundits might even tap into one of the most popular genres of all--the booming market in steamy romance fiction ("Ted, I think when Americans grasp the broad, rippling possibilities of Senator Dole's tax plan, when they feel the soothing yet insistent implications of his capital-gains tax cut, they will open to his candidacy like a rose...
...ignore his prophetic June 30, 1965, memorandum concerning the major troop-deployment decisions that were to transform the conflict into an American war--a memo that characterized the plan for massive U.S. ground-force involvement as "rash to the point of folly." Your article also made a grotesque fiction of Bundy's life after he left the government. He was a superb president of the Ford Foundation. Serious historians of the nuclear age consider his book on the atom a great work...