Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dorris and Erdrich had helped and writers whose work they encouraged. The couple met at Dartmouth, where Dorris, part Modoc Indian, had founded the Native American studies program, and Erdrich, also part Native American, was a student and later a writer-in-residence. While Erdrich won praise for her fiction, Dorris' most recognized achievement was his 1989 nonfiction book The Broken Cord. In it Dorris describes how, at age 26, he adopted a three-year-old Sioux boy, becoming one of the first single men in America to legally adopt a child. The child, Abel, had a constellation of mental...
...will search the shelf of contemporary fiction long and hard to find a parental nightmare projected with the emotional force and verbal energy that Roth brings to American Pastoral. Every time she passes a young woman, Mary Dawn hopes it is her daughter. Hope, in fact, is no help. It only inflames the pain every day. Eventually the mother starts to habituate expensive psychiatric clinics. The ideal marriage dissolves, and long before he sickens with terminal prostate cancer, Swede begins to die of heartbreak...
Vendler feels that poetry serves a valuable function in the way it allows people to express and explore their private existence. "Fiction and drama--which students see more of, even on television or at the movies--have to do with a person's life in society: You usually have to have two people to make a drama, and a novel tends to have a wide social canvas...[But] the only place where you hear what the soul says to itself when it's alone is poetry...
Like beer at a fraternity and pizza at a child's birthday, their theory goes, the album has become popular because it's cheap, simple and a safe bet not to offend partygoers. And then it hits me: it's the Pulp Fiction soundtrack of its time...
...friends admit to knowing the title, let alone owning the disc. But I was determined to dig deeper, so I ventured out to Newbury Comics. And wouldn't you know it, the store known for it's wicked coolness features not only a veritable library of Charles Bukowski fiction, it also carries a large supply of "Ultimate Dance Party 1997," an Arista release. The album contains such classics as "[It's A] Beautiful Life," and the late but great "Macarena...