Word: fictions
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...meditative samadhi posture. I also researched that period in history for Jesus's religious context, political and cultural contexts, the Jewish sects at the time, the occupation by Rome. Then I went into incubation, meditation, and I allowed this story to unfold. It fits into the category of "religious fiction...
...least that’s how Jason Manoharan, head TF for “Postwar American and British Fiction,” wants it to feel. He has discovered that there’s no better way of breaking a tense, academic atmosphere in class than by bringing his Old English sheep dog, Kaliban...
...came to Harvard wanting to be a doctor, and she knew science would be in her future. But what Alana C. Ju ‘10 did not know was that she would end up writing science fiction about genetically-modified crops that take over the world or fiddling with a microscope that once belonged to Mark Twain...
...English. Why that should be is not much of a mystery. Bolaño was a difficult, angry, self-reflexive writer who lived an erratic and occasionally unpleasant life. And Americans, as the head of the Swedish Academy has annoyingly but rightly pointed out, don't read much fiction in translation anyway. (See the 100 best albums, movies, TV shows and novels of all time...
...Europe and misspent an entire decade there as an itinerant laborer, living the life of a poète maudit and striking up an acquaintance with heroin. But in 1990, finding himself a husband and father, Bolaño decided to kick the smack and take up writing fiction in the hope of supporting his family. His prose turned out to be better than his poetry. In 1998 the publication of The Savage Detectives vaulted him into the first rank of Spanish-language literature, right up there with all those writers he had mocked as an infrarealista. But by then...