Word: fictions
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...Wrong Places," has the gravity of serious fiction. There are no fistfights or wisecracks or oddball events or wacky characters. While it could have collapsed under the weight of pretentiousness, it has such solid supports of narrative technique, design and artfulness as to let you walk right in. Tom Galambos has succeeded in producing a meaningful, thoughtful comix work without a hint of irony. Go sit by yourself somewhere and read...
READING "I read mainly fiction and biography. I've also read millions of mysteries. My mother-in-law, Lynne Cheney and I share books. A lot of my friends in Texas are also in a book club with me. I always read every night for 30 or 40 minutes at the least. Sometimes [the President] asks me to turn out the light, and sometimes I have to ask him. It depends on who's sleepiest...
BOOK Henry and Clara by Thomas Mallon "A historical fiction about the couple who were in the box at Ford's Theatre with Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd. It's a sad story...
...love story, a prophecy and a fairy tale (Pinocchio, to be exact) in the guise of a science-fiction film, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence represents the collaboration and collision of two master filmmakers: Stanley Kubrick, who spent parts of more than 15 years on the project; and Steven Spielberg, whom Kubrick finally asked to direct it, and who did, from his own screenplay, after Kubrick's death in 1999. The film, whose genesis and shooting have long been cocooned in secrecy, opens next week...
...other fables of sexual predation (Fatal Attraction, Play Misty for Me), while stirring a mood of increasing emotional dread. And at its heart is the notion that an artist-anyway, a novelist or playwright?is essentially a vampire, draining friends of their essence, refashioning and distorting them into fiction, creating artistic harmony through human betrayal...