Word: novelist
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...increasing the scope of its residential house program, Penn is also in the second year of a college house seminar program in which a guest from outside the university becomes part of the house community for a week. Some recent guests include, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and iconoclastic novelist Norman Mailer '43 are two luminaries who recently visited...
...course, not new. And as Amanda Cross and Erich Segal have already demonstrated, and Silver makes abundantly clear, there are ways of satisfying that urge which do not involve subjecting the reading public to an embarrassing wallow in nostalgic meditation. Not that the excesses of more "serious" Harvard novelists such as George A. Weller '29 and Faye Levine '65 aren't understandable; writers are supposed to write from experience, and any Harvard career as Real and Grand and Full as these writers seem to have had just cries out to be transfigured through Art. Such explorations of What...
...exceptions are Leon's mother and Novelist Pete Dexter, 40, who in God's Pocket (Random House; 274 pages; $14.95) turns a random incident into a picaresque romp. Jeanie Hubbard Scarpato, still pretty in middle age despite a life that has "had more sorry chapters than the Old Testament," refuses to believe that the son she raised on her own from infancy after her first husband's death would simply let something fall on his head. Mickey, her current spouse, cannot disagree; he feels unworthy of Jeanie, probably with cause. He drives a refrigerated truck and sells...
Childhood, that traditional turf of the first novelist, is examined at a distance in William McPherson's refreshing debut, Testing the Current (Simon & Schuster; 348 pages; $15.95). The slow awakening of youth is noted in minutely observed and somewhat magnified detail, but at a third-person remove, almost as if the author were examining his cast through binoculars...
Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) is the kind of romance novelist who cries over her own happy endings and then puts a sprig of parsley on her cat's dinner so he can join in celebrating the completion of another bodice-ripping yarn. Because her life is not quite the page turner that her novels are, it is the cheerful, if improbable, business of Romancing the Stone to transform her into a reasonable facsimile of one of her own adventuresses lost in the Colombian jungle. Michael Douglas plays the footloose fellow who helps her decipher the enigmas of her libido...