Word: fictions
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...Death - real, non-fiction death - is no stranger in our living rooms. We've seen war dead and street dead, we've seen Lee Harvey Oswald shot and Dr. Kevorkian at work. Earlier this year, public radio aired tapes of old executions in Georgia, and the republic stood. Maybe there is something magic, incomparable, holy about the live, planned display of the moment of extinguishment. But maybe not. Maybe what proponents and opponents of capital punishment have in common is that they expect an execution - the moment and the spectacle itself - to deliver too much: too much revulsion, too much...
...WHAT SHE LIKES TO READ I like to read a lot of biography; I read mainly fiction and biography. I just finished "Henry and Clara" by Thomas Mallon, which is a historical fiction about the couple who were in the box at Ford's Theatre with Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd...
...Lynne Cheney. She [Cheney] has sent me several books. In fact, the reason I read "Henry and Clara" is because she sent me Thomas Mallon's latest book, "Two Moons: A Novel." We also shared "The Girl With the Pearl Earring" by Tracy Chevalier. That's a historical fiction about the artist Vermeer. That was one of the most recent, and I did like it a lot. Then I just saw the Vermeer show at the Metropolitan. It was fabulous. I also saw the one that was here [in Washington] about five or six years...
...felt that the way people were experiencing reality and fiction was becoming so intertwined that they thought it would be an interesting thing to explore," Flanagan says. "If you go to the songs, then those are very personal songs, about marriage and intimacy and temptation. [Bono] wanted to know if all this sensory overload we experience in the world gives you permission to live for your own pleasure...
...bunkmate why he was waking up at this time, he responded by saying that he wanted to record his dreams. After a few episodes of these nightly roosts and reading the creative writing, the bunkmate suggested that his roommate bag the alarm clock and forego creative writing for non-fiction. The advice was prophetic, because a Pulitzer Prize was realized many years later for non-fiction writing...