Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mainly, according to a friend, "a lost, searching, unhappy soul." He and Ted wrote each other frequently, extremely tender at times but just as often engaged in brittle clashes of ego. "If that story is typical of your previous writing," Ted wrote after David sent him some of his fiction, "then it's obvious why no one wants to publish your stuff--it's just plain bad, by anyone's standard...
...delight to see TIME's cover bearing a portrait of fantasy fiction's latest "wiz" kid, Harry Potter [BOOKS, Sept. 20]. As an author, I have despaired of the future of both writing and reading, given the plummeting literary standards and increasing indifference to learning in our era. In so dark an hour, it is nothing short of magical that what J.R.R. Tolkien called the "Tree of Tales" could put forth a green and growing shoot like the Harry books--a branch that can serve as a broomstick to bear us "lands away" and, better still, worlds within. Congratulations...
...fantastic deception? Because what could be more compelling than a child's eyewitness to the ovens. As fiction, noted Judith Shulevitz in Slate, the book is banal and formulaic. As fact, it becomes harder to dismiss...
...others, the very idea of truth is itself a fiction. Everyone brings to life his own truth. "Real" history is a lie, merely the story of the victor. It does not deserve to be "privileged" above alternative narratives, particularly those of the dispossessed...
...what is truth, anyway? The new Reagan biography features a fictional character, bearing the author's name (Edmund Morris) but with a fabricated past, who encounters Reagan at various junctures. Fiction--with supporting footnotes, no less--in the authorized biography of a living President...