Word: fictions
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...remarkable that he's done it all," saidMelinda R. Mullin, vicepresident of One Potata,the firm which handles publicity for the novel."We are very picky about the fiction we work on,because there is a lot of mediocre fiction outthere, but this really stands...
...tenured English professor produced a work of non-fiction about humans who are abducted by extra-terrestrials, the Harvard community would probably have nothing to say. The deconstructionists who people the academic, literary establishment have given us learned tomes about transvestistism...
...create the effect of documentary footage, a la "Schindler's List." By using real news clips in the film's opening scenes, then using fake news footage of his actors later to advance the plot, Van Peebles jeopardizes his credibility as an historian. Already treading a tightrope between fiction and reality, this method of "historicizing fiction" puts the viewer on guard. Although the fictional documentary footage is noncontroversial and works well as a device to sum up Panther activities, its contribution to the effect of a documentary is somewhat duplicitous...
...novel opens with the promise of another of Amis' feats of controlled chaos. The plot develops with the right balance of malice and merriment. At the age of 40, struggling novelist Richard Tull understands that he will never make it as a writer. His cerebral fiction no longer gets points for degree of difficulty. He reviews books for pittances, his wife earns more than he does, his children distract him, and he is impotent...
...prestigious Pulitzer Prizes were handed out by Columbia University's journalism school in 21 categories. Among the winners: History-No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, by Doris Kearns Goodwin; Fiction-The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields; Poetry-Simple Truth, by Philip Levine; Biography-Harriet Beecher Stowe, by Joan D. Hedrick; Drama-The Young Man from Atlanta, by Horton Foote. The Virgin Islands Daily News (circ. 16,400) won in the Public Service category for a 10-part series on crime...