Word: fictions
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...writing that make him deceptively easy to read as he explores personal stories unfolding in a turbulent period in history. A projected multi-volume series following the lives of citizens in Weimar-era Berlin, the promise of this first installment suggests "Berlin" will be a major work of historical fiction...
...Fantagraphics Books; 2000) Sacco brings journalism to comics in this oral history of life in the beleaguered Bosnian city of Gorazde during the Balkans crisis of the 1990s. Along with his previous series "Palestine" and his latest book, "The Fixer," Sacco has almost single-handedly created a vital non-fiction graphic sub-genre...
...Librarian I wrestled with the nomenclature and found that "Graphic Novel," although flawed and imprecise, is the best term of a bad lot. I doubt the discussion will ever end (look at how the term "Science Fiction" is still debated, and embraced or shunned, i.e. over Margaret Atwood), but I think the war is over and we are stuck with "Graphic Novel" for better or worse. So, as much as I sympathize with Art Spiegelman and his desire not to be shelved next to Marvel's books, he is just wrong. Of course some Graphic Novels have a "seriousness...
...Rock is different from the film in some key ways, however. "In the movie, it's one teacher and one class full of privileged kids," Wish says. "In real life, it's hundreds of teachers, thousands of kids, and it's free." Truth, in this case, rocks harder than fiction...
...Before the title story of the collection was published in the 2001 debut fiction issue of The New Yorker, where Freudenberger worked as an editorial assistant, the 26-year-old had taught English in Bangkok and New Delhi. Four of the five stories in Lucky Girls are drawn from her experiences living among Americans in Asia. In the title story, about a young American woman drifting in New Delhi after the death of her married Indian lover, Freudenberger hits the telling detail again and again, as when her narrator looks at the Taj Mahal and catches "the unexpected view...