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...Hansen: Incredibly, there are still staunch deniers who would prefer to listen to a science fiction writer [Michael Crichton, author of "State of Fear," which challenges global warming science] rather than a real scientist. It is perhaps not a coincidence that the strongest deniers among the politicians have connections to the fossil fuel industry...
...life was over,” he said of a New York Times review that trashed his book. Yet shortly after, The Los Angeles Times published a glowing article, Maguire said. Maguire said he was immediately flooded with movie offers. “No one in L.A. reads fiction but they do read newspapers,” he said. Maguire went on to describe the process by which the novel was adapted from an unsuccessful cinematic project to a wildly successful Broadway play. He admitted to recently rereading the work for the first time in 11 years, noting the disparity...
...It’s hard to avoid tracing the similarities, though, and despite what Viswanathan has said, one must wonder, is Opal actually self-referential—a sort of “Mehta”-fiction? Where does its plot end and Viswanathan’s real life begin...
...Kojima himself translated the works of William Saroyan and J.D. Salinger during a teaching career that began in the late 1940s. Embracing Family is the only one of his 30-plus volumes of fiction and criticism to be published in English. With his focus on family and changing times, Kojima quickly became a star of the "third generation" of Japanese novelists. Along with Shusaku Endo, Shotaro Yasuoka and others, he absorbed the staid realism of the prewar generations and added new energy and introspection. Now 91, Kojima lives quietly in Tokyo...
...retain your trust and our credibility, we have to do two things. Most basically, we have to ensure readers trust that what they are reading in our pages is fact, not fiction. I believe our industrious and assiduous reporters, backed by the paper’s 133-year legacy, ensure that most readers do pick up the paper each morning with a basic assumption of truth. But the peaceful slumbers of complacency are never far off, and I hope this column will provide us with a bi-weekly opportunity to recommit ourselves to the truth...