Word: fictions
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...stubble. Nearing Yazoo City, Miss.--our second stop after Memphis, with six more to go--we watched folks hanging out on their stoops, kids playing, pickup trucks winding along two-lane country roads. To this untutored Yankee, it was a first glimpse of what I had known only from fiction and song, from Flannery O'Connor to Hank Williams. And it did look different, from the dusty streets to the plain-lettered signs for BBQ and general stores...
...impossible for contemporary romance writers to subvert or extend their genre in the way that, say, John le Carre upended conventional spy fiction when he killed off the sympathetic hero of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold. Fiddle with the romance formula--make the heroine a passive office temp with an eating disorder and the man of her dreams a philandering salesman with a wife and three kids in Cleveland--and the story suddenly resembles ordinary life...
...they probably will, perhaps through the publicity campaign under way for Roberts' new hardback offering of this year, Carolina Moon (Putnam; 438 pages; $24.95). This novel is a romance tooled to attract readers of popular fiction who may not think, or know, that they like romances. It is longer than Roberts' formula books and offers a larger cast of characters. The central love story is buttressed by a second one between supporting players. And Roberts includes elements from other pop genres, including a paranormal ability and a long-unsolved murder...
...director Brian De Palma's career--echoes Richard C. Hoagland's 1987 book The Monuments of Mars. Hoagland postulates that the planet was once inhabited by superior beings who left their seed on Earth. The theory may not be hard science, but it can make for enthralling science fiction...
TIME is to be commended for having the fortitude to paint a true picture of Lloyd's, warts and all. As you noted in your report, I am one of the unwitting Names who believed that the Lloyd's mystique was fact instead of fiction. Now that your article has been published, all the king's horses and all the king's men cannot put the myth of Lloyd's of London back together again. ELIZABETH BENCSICS Rio Rancho...