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This is not realistic fiction; it's Glocca Morra with a boarded-up main street. Or maybe Yoknapatawpha lite. At its thinnest it seems more jokey than funny. Occasionally, it threatens to become patronizing. Most of the time it works, however, not so much because the author keeps things stirred up but because he persuades the reader to share his great, openhearted fondness for his ridiculous characters. A compact is signed, Russo saying something like, "O.K., yeah, Sully's being a bit of a jerk, but watch what he's going to do now . . ." Or, "Did you meet Vera...
Where Eszterhas, 48, is concerned, it has always been hard to tell which is stranger, truth or fiction -- or even which is which. But anyone who has questioned his version, or his scripts, has soon learned that Eszterhas is a scrappy, macho type who stands by his words. "I've always believed in fighting for my work," he says, decked out in his usual patched jeans, cowboy boots and decidedly nondesigner shirt. "I've taken great pride in being a writer, and I demanded a certain kind of treatment. When I haven't been treated that way, I've either...
...poetry and numerous essays and short critical studies, Erica Jong has a reputation for controversy--a reputation Erica Jong on Henry Miller: The Devil at Large will certainly bolster. The New York Times Book Review has already declared the book, Jong's first full-length work of non-fiction, "silly," and Jong's descriptions of Miller as a "prophet" who "invented a new style of writing" and "forever changed the way American literature would be written" will surely inspire debate elsewhere...
...heroine, Margaret Nathan, is perhaps the most unsympathetic heroine in recent fiction. A recent graduate student whose dissertation is published and becomes a best seller, she is catapulted into the limelight. One tends to make the inevitable comparisons between Naomi Wolf and the commercial success of The Beauty Myth, or Camille Paglia and Sexual Personae or Susan Faludi and Backlash, all currently fashionable authors who are trotted out to discuss their tomes on talk shows...
...novel from the outset. "For legal reasons," he says in the preface, "I have had to alter a number of facts in this book." In the preface, Roth the author is already mixing it up with Roth the character, confusing what is real and what is fictional, what is altered and what is hallucinatory. Operation Shylock: A Confession plays a steady game of doubled identities and Roth the author supports the truth of the volume "out of uniform," so to speak, in interviews where he claims again that the whole thing is true. Not until the reader gets...