Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...distantly related events. The first actually happened. In 1894 a fast-moving fire engulfed the Delavan House hotel in Albany, New York. Fifteen people died, mostly kitchen help and chambermaids trapped in top-floor workers' quarters later found to have sealed emergency exits. The second event is pure fiction by the author of such raffish and elegiac novels as Legs, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game and Ironweed. In 1908 Giles Fitzroy, a prominent Albany physician, tracks his wife to a Manhattan hotel, where he finds her in the compromising company of an actress and a playwright named Edward Daugherty. Enraged...
...like these would have drawn any publisher's attention, of course. The fact that an African-American author was writing about vivid characters with whom many black women could identify had the added effect of proving to booksellers that there is a sizable, previously ignored market for semisoapy black fiction--just as the $67 million gross for last year's film version of Exhale proved there is a sizable market for semisoapy black movies...
...appoint themselves to hold these seminars decide what is fact and what is fiction? Their decisions are based mainly on what seems right to them. By saying the Gospels are unreliable, the Jesus Seminar members show they are confused. Whether Jesus is God or whether he is not God is irrelevant. The "character" Jesus is detailed in the Bible. Even the Old Testament books foreshadow him. Would not the Bible then be the best evidence of him? To scratch out almost all the Gospels and accept only a fraction of them as possibly true is quite puzzling. BRIAN JANZEN Yarrow...
...dying father, who jauntily toasts his own send-off with a growler of ale and an intimation of paradise that, he says, resembles the inside of a fireman's boot. "That1s not what heaven looks like," says his priest. "Then," replies the elder Daugherty, "I'm goin' someplace else." Fiction is full of men and women who can be larger than life. In his best novel so far, Kennedy gives us 'splendid nobodies' who are larger than death...
...Cornerstone Theater Company's production of "California Seagull," a recent adaptation of Chekhov's classic relocated to the Golden State, deliberately reproduces all the traits of Konstantin's play. Maybe it's a multidimensional meta-commentary on the original which adds new facets to the nexus between fact and fiction. Or maybe it's just an enthusiastic and imaginative enterprise that gets a little carried away with its "alternadrama" image. Whichever way you look at it, "California Seagull" suffers from an overdose of avant-garde. But there's something in it. And Nina is excellent...