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...turns out that Harry Potter has spawned an enormous output of "fan fiction," original stories featuring the Hogwarts gang written by aficionados and posted on the Internet. A curiously large proportion of the stories are in what is called the "slash" category, describing Harry's heretofore unpublicized gay liaisons in stories such as Night of the Round Table. Harry is one of the most popular protagonists in this underground literary form, although he's not alone. (Others include Don Quixote, Ben Hur, Nero Wolfe and, less imaginatively, Frank and Joe Hardy.) Warner Bros. has no plans to include this...
...represents Will Self and Ben Okri. "It shows how complicated and interconnected the world is, and I think readers are going to want either to escape that or understand it better through serious literature. I think middle-of-the-road books like thrillers may suffer. That kind of fiction now comes too close to our lives...
...horror of what has happened will find an audience. "We had many great novels out of World War II," he says. "People did not want to turn away from the subject. And thriller writers often deal with themes of importance and offer an educative side to popular fiction." In fact, while Higgins says that "I don't think a daring story about Afghanistan would appeal right now," he adds that he thinks world terrorism might provide a good subject for contemporary writers...
...intimate relationship between war and art," says Modris Ecksteins, professor of history at the University of Toronto. "They are absolutely symbiotic." He points out that both the Dada movement and the Surrealists consolidated in the postwar years. But while Ecksteins agrees that Sept. 11 will affect modern fiction, he doubts that it will provide the same powerful literary stimulus as World War I. "As numbing as the recent horrors have been, they don't surpass the days of the early 20th century...
...year-old author Al Alvarez, whose memoir, Where Did It All Go Right?, will be published next year, the tragedy of Sept. 11 will have a beneficial effect if it reawakens writers to the emotional power of fiction. "I think we are done with post-post modernism and the novel-within-the-novel. There is no room for these intellectual games now. As Freud put it around 1919, speaking of all the men's lives lost in World War I and how shallow the world had seemed before then: 'Life has become interesting again. It has recovered its full content...