Word: fictions
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...self-examination. The Age of Oprah does not. One of the defining features of modernity is self- consciousness: psychological self-consciousness as popularized by Freud; historical self-consciousness as introduced by Hegel and Marx; literary self- consciousness as practiced in the interior, self-referential, self-absorbed world of modern fiction...
...Daryl Gates, have chosen public lives. Others, like the beating victims Rodney King and Reginald Denny, have had fame thrust upon them. Most live in obscurity. She seeks to convey both the essence of the individuals and the collective character of their place and time. In a century when fiction and journalism have been filching each other's virtues -- the authenticity of truth, the order and purposefulness of storytelling -- Smith has found a technique that does not diminish either. It also serves political aims. "By changing from one person to another, I show that change is possible," she explains...
...first appearance of a very good writer, especially the sort of writer who breaks off jagged pieces of his own life and holds them up as fiction, is a tense, edgy pleasure for the reader. How fragile is the fine new talent? How broad and solid? How many fragments remain to be broken off and displayed, and after that, what will be left...
These funny columns, titled Tales of the City, soon captivated San Francisco and eventually led to a series of six books. So titillating was his amalgam of fiction and reality that a number of locals at first suspected that Armistead Maupin must be the pseudonym of some social insider (thus part of the show's title, "is a man I dreamt up," is an anagram...
...BOTTOM LINE: A father recounts in fiction his daughter's fight to recover from a devastating crime...