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...statistics: romance novels are read by 51 million Americans. They account for more than half of all paperback fiction sold in the U.S. If you thought feminism, postmodernism and the Internet had done away with the romance novel, think again. The number of romance-novel readers in the U.S. has risen 18% since 1998. One reason: romance novels are changing. Julia Quinn, whose The Further Observations of Lady Whistledown (Avon; 391 pages) tells the story of Ballister and Renminster, is one of the people changing them...
...they’re circling their typewriters with dusters and Windex. They cannot afford any semblance of office space. The problem has reached such a fevered pitch that there is a market for helping writers work: Natalie Goldberg and Annie Lamott have made careers not by selling their own fiction, but by writing entire books for other writers on how to sit down and write; I own an inspirational writing book with winners like, “Depression is surprisingly frequent in writers,” and “Just write...
...matter, which he plans to put on a rerelease of his 2002 album, Former Child Actor. Then again, The Surreal Life is probably the only reason you know Feldman had a 2002 album. As for Manthey, she wants to parlay Surreal Life into an acting role in old-fashioned fiction television. "It's pilot-casting season," she says, "and there's been renewed interest in me because of the show." Reality may have changed the rules of celebrity, but the big dream is still the same: to become a true star, so hot and bright that you never have...
...When I finished my first English-language novel, Lili, in 1998, it took me three years to find an American publisher. During that time, agents and publishers suggested that I publish Lili as a biography or memoir instead of as fiction. The commercial success of Nien Cheng's Life and Death in Shanghai, Jung Chang's Wild Swans and Adeline Yeh Mah's Falling Leaves had proved that memoirs about China sell. When I refused to change categories, I was turned down. But when Ha Jin's novel Waiting became a best-seller in the U.S., my luck changed...
...beginning, Chuck joins a guided tour in the Rockefeller Center lobby, runs off to apply for a job there and in a wink is leading a tour of his own--all in the same shot. Later he walks from the present into the past, from fact to outlandish fiction, in this confession of a most unreliable mind. Clooney, notorious for his practical jokes, here constructs his most elaborate jape...