Word: fictions
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Taken together, his 11 novels, which include Ragtime and Billy Bathgate, retell the past 150 years of American history. Doctorow's new work, The March, narrates General Sherman's Civil War campaign and just earned the author his second PEN/Faulkner prize for fiction. Doctorow spoke to TIME's Lev Grossman about his novel, his generation and his country's newest...
...WRITE FICTION ABOUT ACTUAL EVENTS. THAT'S BEEN A TOUCHY SUBJECT LATELY, SINCE THE FLAP OVER JAMES FREY. Well, he's not my responsibility. That book was mislabeled. It should have been spoken of as a kind of autobiographical novel. People know that novelists are liars. And that's why we can be trusted to tell the truth...
...horrible problems--at its most seductive. At times it strains to represent every aspect of late 20th century Italy in one family (a Red Brigades radical is told to kill a prominent attorney, who is--her brother-in-law!). But that happens in novels, and this is a picto-fiction that truly deserves the word epic...
...past accomplishments slow down the pace of innovation, the Canadian author, blogger and self-proclaimed “Free Culture activist” has also published a science-fiction novel, “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom...
...optimist about technology you also have to be a pessimist, because in believing in its power to yield incredible benefits, you also have to acknowledge the potential for enormous damage. Fiction can be a kind of Gedankenexperiment where you try to chart a course between the damage and the benefit. The Bitchun Society isn’t as utopian as it seems; it has some pretty dramatic failings. It’s a society in which minority viewpoints have no protection, in which your ability to be heard is directly correlated to your popularity. If all your society protects...