Word: fictions
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Trickle-down economics has not yet sunk to the places that the people in George Saunders' fiction must, for want of a better fortune, call home. The hilariously hapless heroes of the six stories in Pastoralia (Riverhead Books; 188 pages; $22.95) live as adults with their crotchety mothers or religiously obsessed sisters or a menagerie of squabbling relatives. The beleaguered breadwinner in Sea Oak works as a male stripper at Joysticks, a club with an aviation motif, and notes of his lodgings, "At Sea Oak there's no sea and no oak, just a hundred subsidized apartments and a rear...
...explore his artistic talent, and, as the soft-spoken sophomore says, "I just enjoyed the class and had a really good time." Upon arriving at Harvard, Velez became immersed in film theory and video courses through the VES department, and is now primarily interested in making documentaries rather than fiction films. Velez says he really enjoyed the full-year introductory film class he recently completed, as the final assignment for the class was a group documentary. This year the class elected to make a film about the process of garbage collecting. Of the group documentary, Velez said that, despite...
...capital last week for final outdoor shooting, the cast took a victory lap around town that tangled the lines between fiction and reality. They went to the White House to have their pictures taken with their real-life counterparts, stopped at the New York Times's Washington bureau, and Allison Janney, the 6-ft. actress who plays press secretary C.J. Cregg, stood on the podium to open Lockhart's midday briefing. The show even got a validating blast from Republican House leader Tom DeLay, who--while admitting he's never watched it--declared it displays "disdain for [religious] faith...
...what, in the end, is this book? As fiction, it could simply be a musing: a sensuous, aging intellectual persona, thoroughly modern, dying of AIDS in a post-modern age. There is plenty about the mercurial politics of elite universities to sustain a deeper narrative about modernist men professing a fragmenting discipline...
...path very carefully-even down to naming herself. She is faced with a country that is no longer hers. By the end of the novel, it is again, and the journey of that transformation is a finely crafted piece of storytelling. The atmosphere of his story is not entirely fiction. The teardrop-shaped island country below India has been ravaged by ethnic conflict for several decades; it has been plunged into war or near-war for nearly two. According to Ondaatje's carefully detached preface, "From the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, Sri Lanka was in a crisis that...