Word: fictions
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...over 400 writers that seeks to celebrate the genre while enhancing its prestige and profile. With the entertaining “Thriller,” the organization succeeds in advancing the merits of the thriller not simply as shoot-em-up escapism, but as a respectable form of fiction in its own right...
...newsletter is essentially a short summary of your family’s year, but it’s also a brazen work of fiction. It is meant to be a brief summary of the events of the year in the life of the family, but in reality, it is a long disquisition on how the family wanted the events of the year to unfurl. As such, it is brazen not only in its obvious and legion lies (no one tells the truth in a Christmas newsletter), but it is also in its hubris. For what is hubris if not assuming...
...time, Colbert was not speaking as himself, but as “Stephen Colbert,” the brash, right-wing pundit he portrays on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report.” However, despite a few moments which blurred fact and fiction, Colbert spent most of the evening out of character, revealing behind-the-scenes secrets of his hit show and musing on the relationship between comedy and politics. ‘SACK’ The event, simply titled “A Conversation with Stephen Colbert,” took the form...
...While the slobs they find might be real, the trend is a complete fiction. In fact, the undeniable trend is in the other direction - the number of adult children living with their parents has been going down, gradually, for 15 years. Here's a chart, based on U.S. Census data...
...resist trifling with complex systems (you know--DNA, nanotechnology, alien spheres, Japan) in the name of progress, which then turn around and bite us, often literally. This view is not necessarily incorrect, and Crichton has expressed it in some first-rate, even prescient, works of genre fiction, notably Congo and Jurassic Park. (Crichton is in real life famously tall--he's usually reported as 6 ft. 9 in.--and one wonders if that helps him see what's coming ahead of the rest...