Word: fictions
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...Gutierrez, producing the "zine" from their San Francisco apartment, proudly explain their writing selection by the fact that they have "no taboo subjects." Looking for "truly transgressive and well-written" work, Pritchard and Gutierrez also require that it be genuine, and evidently see no contradiction in their boast, "Our fiction is real." Gutierrez insists that we are repressed in our daily lives, and it is therefore important that these writers can "write their own truth." Thus featured is "Piercing Insights," an expose, complete with eight graphic photos of Nancy Irwin enjoying the experience of having 60 22-gauge needles threaded...
Wordsworth: This otherwise extensive bookstore has no separate romance section either. A few Danielle Steel novels and an assortment of Judith Krantz's are scattered in the fiction section, but one staffer told FM that the store has "hardly any romances, compared to a chainstore like Barnes & Noble or Waldenbooks...
McElwee continues to question, "what exactly is the nature of nonfiction versus fiction" in filmmaking. A true realist, McElwee describes documetary filmmaking ideally as the "objective presentation of visual images shot from reality." But he concedes, "I guess there's no strain of the purely objective anywhere in the film...That kind of objectivity, we all realize in this post-modern era, is an impossibility. You can't be objective." He cites Errol Morris, the make of "A Thin Blue Line" and "A Brief History of Time," as the most "noticeble" explorer of this question. Both of these films document...
...beginning to flood from the formerly communist countries of Eastern Europe. While making the 1992 film on the Berlin Wall in collaboration with his wife, McElwee had the opportunity to see the reality these filmmakers document. "There's a strong documentary tradition in Eastern Europe that informs the fiction film making....A lot of it is hand-held work....They look to reality, in a way, for the groundwork....for their films, more so than American film makers...
...only to bring into focus the new and sometimes byzantine nuances of male-female relations. Any work that hopes to articulate the plight of the nineties man must, if only for the sake of critical viability, avoid at all cost a wounded or plaintive tone. Clearly, while "Men's Fiction" may have a place in the increasingly political world of writing and criticism, it will have to fight...