Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Standards is a quarterly journal that includes poetry, fiction and essays. Its focus is multicultural issues in general, but its first two issues have alternately focussed on particular themes--Survival and Resistance...
Patience is recommended because it will be handsomely rewarded. My Other Life is Theroux's best and most entertaining book to date, a bold claim, perhaps, since there are so many of them; in addition to his volumes of fiction, Theroux has written 10 highly regarded and popular travel books. He has, in other words, moved consistently and successfully between the realms of fact and fiction. This time he roams the strange and, in his telling, enchanting territory in between...
...novel appeared in the New Yorker last March, transatlantic eyebrows were raised, particularly after it became known that the real Paul Theroux had once actually attended a dinner given for the Queen. As a stand-alone piece in the New Yorker appearing under the rather puzzling rubric "Fact and Fiction," Theroux's account provoked justifiable confusion. In the context of My Other Life, though, the episode seems entirely consistent with the mildly plausible and cumulatively bizarre contents of the rest of the novel...
...professor's long list of tributes during his career includes two Pulitzer Prizes for non-fiction...
...professor of Literature and Arts C-22: "European Culture in the Latin Middle Ages" wowed shoppers with slides of the Starbucks coffee logo, a video clip from "Pulp Fiction," and an audio clip from a Weird Al Yankovich spoof of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise...