Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...literature? The two seem about as compatible as Apple Jacks and peanut butter. But with the channel's first fiction contest, MTV has managed to find a novel that sets the demands of pop culture alongside the standards of literary fiction and emerges as a unified whole. The winner of the contest, Robin Troy '96 delivers Floating, a novel that is young and entertaining enough to be MTV, yet mature and developed enough to be thought-provoking and powerful...
...difficulties that, though perhaps less dramatically, can be extended to a wide range of experience. The novel is imaginative, insightful, and quite well written. MTV and literature? They still sound like Apple Jacks and peanut butter, but if Floating is any indication, MTV Books may have a future in fiction after...
...pages into her new novel, Walker stages a highly illustrative scene of lesbian sex. Is it fiction or is it gynecology? A moot question when confronting an author whose continuing crossover success depends on reaching an expanding audience. Walker flits gnomically through space and time to tell the story of an American family and its transformation from a repressed patriarchal unit to a spiritual sorority of free radicals. Fans of the well-focused The Color Purple may not appreciate Walker's looser style or such unintended crack-up lines as "...in the branches of the nearest tree lives the first...
...edgy and depressed artist, a lunatic and finally a resident of hell. None of her various incarnations seem remotely connected to another, and in each she is given an outlandish haircut that does her acting for her. When she has the severe, cropped look of Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction, you know that tragedy is imminent. We never know why Robin Williams would risk hell for her, simply because we don't clearly know who, or rather which, incarnation...
...permitting student prayer on school grounds if the prayer is not adult-led or during class hours. But the event still bothers some civil libertarians. Barry Lynn, head of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, says that "technically it is legal. But it is a fiction that this is a spontaneous outpouring of activity. It is part of a well-orchestrated campaign, a back-door effort by adults to create evangelism on public school campuses...