Word: fictions
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...every instance there was a trick of the light, or a hallucination or a burst of wishful thinking. But since we do not know (and by definition cannot know) the probability of the supernatural’s existence, the assertion that every ghost or fairy-sighting must be a fiction is little more than a pleasant materialist prejudice...
...John Grisham? J.K. Rowling? Nope, it was romance writer Nora Roberts. Sales for Roberts' eight new bestsellers total some 14 million copies, says PW. There are currently more than 145 million copies of Roberts' books in print. Her book, "The Villa" is No. 1 on the 4/28 NYT paperback fiction list; her current hardcover, "Three Fates," was No. 1 on the NYT hardcover list last week...
...that the City of Salt and its characters are merely the figments of Kahn and Selesnick’s minds. Yet the pictures are true enough that their melody might seduce us into believing such a prank—and never again know what is fact and what is fiction, what is logic and what is lunacy...
...invention of the written word. Then there was movable type. So Oprah comes in third. But no lower, at least not in the opinion of publishers and booksellers, who binge every month on the demand for whatever title she features on her show. In a nation where reading serious fiction is always in danger of becoming a specialized pursuit, something like playing the dulcimer, Oprah's Book Club, with her 26 million U.S. viewers a week, has made reading nearly as popular as professional wrestling...
Gates said the work’s merit lies in its place in historical fiction and its uniqueness as perhaps the first novel written by a black woman...