Word: fictions
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Diverse maxims appear within its pages, many of which Mailer sutured together into an article in a late December issue of The New Yorker: “the most powerful leverage in fiction comes from point of view” (found in an analysis of the last draft of his third novel, The Deer Park); “film is best when ambiguous” (found in an essay on writing for the silver screen); “your material only becomes valuable when it is existential, by which I mean an experience you do not control” (found...
...unsuccessfully for Mayor of New York City. Beyond penning the novels for which he is chiefly known, he founded and named The Village Voice, directed several films, and became one of the original exponents of New Journalism—a style that blurs the line between journalism and narrative fiction. “Repetition kills the soul,” Mailer writes in one of the book’s many aphorisms by which he has lived...
...getting any help from me. And finally, I realize that comparing even a well-made reality show with, say, The Simpsons is not merely comparing apples with oranges; it's comparing onions with washing machines--no reality show can match the intelligence and layers of well-constructed fiction...
...placed The Dante Club on my syllabus because, perhaps more than most critical works, it breathes new life into the Divine Comedy,” Pertile wrote in an e-mail. “[It] is a superb work of fiction that mixes history and fantasy in such a brilliant way as to make history more vivid than fiction...
...never written any fiction, and I have never taken a creative writing course—not that I recommend that as a way to go. It was hard to jump in,” Pearl says...