Word: fictions
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...Homage by Assassination/Introduction to theEnd of an Argument" at 7:30 p.m. "Homage":Confined to his New York apartment, a Palestinianfilmmaker begins to question notions of identityand exile during the Gulf War. "Introduction": Acritique of the representation of Arabs in Westernmedia and fiction film...
...Darker Proof, the collection of stories you wrote with Adam Mars-Jones, was one of the first books of short fiction to deal with AIDS. What kinds of literary issues do you think AIDS brings...
...make frequent contributions to The New York Times Book Review, have compiled Faber and Faber's collection of gay short fiction, and been made a Chevalier de I'Ordre des Arts et Letters by the French government---all things you've described as "establishmenty." Is that trend just a personal preference or is there a strategy behind...
...first part of the book interweaves Genet's early years with excerpts from his highly autobiographical novels, creating a rich fabric of the facts and the fiction they gave rise to. The biography tracks Genet to Paris, where he became Cocteau's literary find, his "golden thug," and later, Sartre's "pet queer." White imbues even the most frequently told stories with a novel charm. His recreation of the De Beauvoir-Sartre headquarters at the Cafe Deux Magots is sardonic and affectionate, and the deliciously lengthy and opinionated portrait of Cocteau could stand on its own as a study...
...Secretary of Labor, has said, pointing out that when an Iowan buys a Pontiac from General Motors, 60% of his money goes to South Korea, Japan, West Germany, Taiwan, Singapore, Britain and Barbados. Culturally we are being re-formed daily by the cadences of world music and world fiction: where the great Canadian writers of an older generation had names like Frye and Davies and Laurence, now they are called Ondaatje and Mistry and Skvorecky...