Word: fictions
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...bring in the stenographer for a full confession. At a time when storytelling has largely been ceded to film-makers--when Pulp Fiction causes more chatter than pulp fiction--American Tabloid is a big, boisterous, rude and shameless reminder of why reading can be so engrossing and so much fun. The secret, of course, is language. When it is used well-which in Ellroy's case means being pared down to taut, telegraphic sentences, subject-verb-blooey!-one word is worth a thousand pictures...
...argued rather persuasively that such descriptions are now unconscionable, that fiction should be a genteel escape from the encroaching horrors of contemporary life rather than a blueprint for more of the same. The weakness of this case is that it denies narrative art its taproot into the muck and mire of the subconscious; it forgets that private nightmares will fester in solitary confinement instead of finding cathartic company in the public community of stories...
Ellroy, 47, is a 6-ft. 2-in. walking testimonial to the redeeming power of reading and writing fiction; his life has been, in patches, as rough and messy as many of the scenes in his books. His parents divorced when he was six, and he shuttled between them for four years until his mother, a registered nurse and an alcoholic, was found murdered near a high school playground in a small town east of Los Angeles. "At the time, my bereavement was ambiguous," Ellroy says. "My mother was a volatile woman, and I thought she'd been mean...
Alan Lightman's second published work of fiction, Good Benito, feels a lot like a first novel. Arguably it is, since this book reads much more like a novel than did Lightman's 1993 book Einstein's Dreams, a series of fictional meditations on time. It seems probable that Good Benito is, like many first novels, fairly autobiographical, since the book tells the story of a physicist, Bennett Lang, who grows up in Memphis, Tennessee and then comes to the East Coast, while Lightman grew up in Memphis and teaches physics at M.I.T. But the real reason the book feels...
...ByeBye Love" 2:30, 5:30, 8:15 and 10:30 p.m. "Man ofthe House" at 1:10, 3:50 and 7:10 p.m. "Outbreak"at 1:30, 4:20, 7:20 and 10:20 p.m. "Tommy Boy" at1:00, 4:00, 6:50 and 9:50 p.m. "Pulp Fiction" at12:00, 3:10, 6:15 and 9:40 p.m. "Tall Tale" at12:30, 3:30 and 7:00 p.m. "Tank Girl" at 1:40,4:10, 6:30 and 9:20 p.m. "Dolores Clairborne" at12:40, 3:40, 6:40 and 10:00 p.m. "Candy...