Word: fictions
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...remember Pip's turmoil when he learns that his elevation in society has been financed by the fearsome felon Abel Magwitch. The novel being described here, however, is Peter Carey's Jack Maggs (Knopf; 306 pages; $24). What the dickens is Dickens' plot doing in Carey's new fiction...
Under the new management of the national Barnes and Noble chain and with a refurbished interior, the store offers customers a comfortable environment for browsing its stock of academic, fiction, nonfiction, self-help and specialty titles...
Epps, who returned early from a workingsabbatical in Barcelona, will be teaching twocourses this spring, including a Spanishliterature seminar examining the role of realismin Spanish narrative fiction from the latenineteenth century to the present...
Perhaps now would be a good time to ask ourselves which we fear more: that cloning will produce multiple copies of crazed despots, as in the film The Boys from Brazil; or that it will lead to the society portrayed in Gattaca, the recent science-fiction thriller in which genetic enhancement of a privileged few creates a rigid caste structure. By acting sensibly, we might avoid both traps...
...this is shallow thinking. Why not write a millennium novel? Or duct-tape the millennium to a novel you're already writing? Almost any contemporary fiction, no matter how inconsequential and light-minded, has a fighting chance of taking on weight and portent, perhaps even significance, if shoved 23 months into the future. And if significance is elusive, where's the harm...