Word: fictions
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...Orner (Houghton Mifflin/Mariner; paper; November 2), giving it a starred review. "Innovative, original and fresh as a breath of perfumed summer air, these 34 stories capture pure emotion so vividly they tremble with contained life...This extraordinarily fine collection should establish Orner as a new star of American short fiction." Author tour...
...February, Riverhead will publish "Miracle at Saint Ana," the hotly anticipated fiction debut of James McBride, author of the best-selling "The Color of Water." According to PW, "Set in Italy in WWII and based on the famed Buffalo Soldiers of the 92nd Infantry, ?Miracle at Saint Ana? focuses on four American Negro men, a band of partisans and an Italian boy who find redemption in the aftermath of a massacre...
...helped the speaker clarify the subject of her speech and her own relation to it. By doing this, the writer constructed a narrative persona who was set apart from the subject and even from the writer. To Gornick this persona is a necessary aspect of personal nonfiction. In fiction and poetry, characters provide “surrogates” to whom the writer can ascribe the unacceptable yearnings or embarrassing character flaws they seek to express, while in nonfiction the narrator must reveal these flaws within herself. The flaws cannot be once removed as they are in poetry and fiction...
...students] have been trying to go about their business, doing their class shopping,” he said. “I think it’s very difficult for anyone to relate to this. What has happened is largely the stuff of fiction, the stuff of movies. And that can make us almost callous to the real disaster...
...brims with Rushdie’s acerbic wit, particularly in his portrayal of an ever-more wealthy and jaded America and its accoutrements. He name drops with alarming frequency, so that at times the page is in danger of being overrun by noisy capital letters as he mixes his fictional characters in with real life divas, brands and stars. Rushdie even creates his own version of Lara Croft, a tough-cookie doll named Little Brain (apparently no relation to the Bear Of), who having been created by Solanka, leaves him in the dirt, engendering some of the fury that...