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None of this would matter, necessarily, if this were just some hack novelist who was inaccurately depicting college life with the clumsy log of his pen. But the author is Tom Wolfe, a man whose celebrated eye for cultural detail leads those who know little of his chosen subject to accept his account as truth. In a famous 1988 essay entitled “Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast,” Wolfe lambastes his literary contemporaries for not trying to accurately document the frenetic vagaries of our nation’s reality, the “irresistibly lurid carnival...
...fiction film in five years, promises plenty more of the same. Instead of a stately epic--like Robert Rossen's 1956 Alexander the Great, with Richard Burton as the globe-annexing god-king--Stone presents a riot of sensations, military and erotic, through which Alexander (Colin Farrell) has to hack like an intrepid soldier through an unfamiliar jungle. All of which makes for a long, lumpy trip with a charismatic guide and some brilliant detours...
...nationally ranked Harvard football team’s perfect record—the only one remaining in all of Division I-AA. And, you may also reasonably claim, Jim Bunning is in reality a very nice, upstanding, intelligent individual. And that I, on the other hand, am a hack...
...race nears its end, you can expect both sides to try to hack away wedges--or at least slivers--of voters with appeals to religion and morality. It is already happening. Desperately contested Ohio is one of 11 states that will decide on Nov. 2 whether to amend their constitution to ban gay marriage. Phil Burress of the Ohio Campaign to Protect Marriage, which favors that state's proposed amendment, is preparing to mail 2.5 million bulletin inserts to some 17,000 Ohio churches. His group has already submitted nearly 55,000 voter-registration cards. "The church will show...
...importance of plotting shouldn’t subtract from other qualities of fiction, and ultimately, “you can have it all.” Any fan of Ellroy’s will note that his writing is uniquely sonorous and carefully crafted, not the stuff of hack crime writers intent only on weaving a story. “Write the genre you like to read but be original,” he advised...