Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...general rule, writers of fiction are flabbergasted when they read their first screenplays. The dialogue is eye-strainingly self-conscious, the characters flail about with disingenuous emotions and the "stage" directions describe less than clues on a treasure map. Geoff Nicholson's newest novel, Bleeding London, is a book that should have been a screenplay...
...similar experience. "We were turned down by everyone," says Lemmons. "They all said they loved the script, and then they'd say, 'Who is the audience for this film?'" Eve's Bayou finally won backing from Trimark--and a slender budget of $4 million--after Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction) agreed to star in and produce...
...Carol Shields, a Pulitzer Prize-winner for The Stone Diaries, ever tires of writing fiction, she should consider taking up biography. Her newest novel, Larry's Party, paints a subtle portrait of Larry Weller by taking, as the book jacket states, "a CAT scan of his life." If Shields can make a fictional character seem so alive, she could do wonders with an actual human being...
...ceremony was co-sponsored by the Annals of Improbable Research, the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association and the Harvard Computer Society
...dust jacket of Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut's latest (and probably last) book, promises some sort of science-fiction fantasy ride through a highly ironic universe. "Futurology!" it screams, "Ten years of deja vu all over again!" Unfortunately for Douglas Adams fans, nothing could be further from the truth. You can't really blame the poor dust jacket writer, who had the unenviable task of summarizing, in concise and entertaining prose, the essence of a book that defies easy classification...