Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stands to profit. Indeed, the company plans to reissue 10 more novels from the list in the coming year. But is this dose of unabashed consumerism enough to make us want to sneer at the entire project? Not really. The truth is, Americans aren't exactly eating up literary fiction these days. If it takes a bit of corporate motivation to put these books back on our personal shelves, then...
...stunning book Ship Fever, a collection of moody historical meditations cast as short stories, the author of this powerful, brooding novel sets up camp in the mid-19th century and forages for the bones of fiction. She picks an obsession--the search in the high Arctic for a northwest passage to the Pacific--that now seems bizarre. Ships were crushed. Men died of scurvy, watched by healthy Inuit tribesmen who were scorned as beasts. Ill-fated expeditions followed, intent on rescue, science or glory. One of these is Barrett's stage, on which two sharply opposed men, a bookish naturalist...
...RANGEL moved to the Ways and Means Committee, where he's the ranking Democrat. Two others are in the Senate: majority leader TRENT LOTT (Nixon partisan, Clinton critic) and PAUL SARBANES (Nixon critic, Clinton ally). The fresh-faced WILLIAM COHEN won a Senate seat, published works of poetry and fiction, and is now Secretary of Defense. ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN lost two Senate races and served as New York City comptroller...
...person, Mark Leyner barely resembles the fictional persona of his novels, the Lamborghini-driving, debauched literary superstar whose books can touch off riots in Third World countries. Leyner, a soft-spoken family man from Hoboken, N.J. has built a cult following from his outrageously funny fiction. The protagonist of Mark Leyner's latest novel, The Tetherballs of Bougainville, is a 13-year-old boy named "Mark Leyner" who has won a $250,000 per-year fellowship for a screenplay he hasn't yet written; his father, convicted of murdering a mall guard with a cuisinart, has been placed on "Discretionary...
...from a young Bob Fosse, who also gets a cameo) as well as a plot that Padres fans just might want to consider: Small-team fan sells his soul to help his guys beat the mighty Yanks. Great fun, especially since (the Yankees losing? Preposterous!) it's so obviously fiction -- a sure double with legs enough to stretch it to third...