Word: fictions
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...aren't much better), but the details are pure over-the-top pulp, and they go by so fast you don't have time to roll your eyes. Frey has a history of having a little too much fun with facts, among other controlled substances. As a writer of fiction, he may finally have found a job where that's not a problem...
Among the things you will not find in Jhumpa Lahiri's fiction are: humor, suspense, cleverness, profound observations about life, vocabulary above the 10th-grade level, footnotes and typographical experiments. It is debatable whether her keyboard even has an exclamation point...
...Samuels begins his book with a preface that invokes the words of Tom Wolfe when he writes that there is something about “the warp of American reality that resists the rule-bound nature of fiction...
...That attitude has not always been in evidence over these last 12 months. The McCann story has been fueled by accusations, rumors, leaks - many of them aimed at the McCanns - and plot twists that would strain credulity even in a work of fiction...
...people are actually doing serious criticism. It’s so snarky, it’s so ad hominum, it’s so black and white.” “The stupidest person in New York City is currently the lead reviewer of fiction for the New York Times,” he added, referring to controversial, Pulitzer-Prize winning reviewer Michiko Kakutani. Speaking to the success of “The Corrections”—a National Book Award winner that examines how children want to correct the mistakes of their parents?...