Word: novelistic
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...terraces and Doric columns are decidedly grand. The ground floor is divided into three areas named for the colors of the Italian flag. Skip the house special, tagliatelle al caffè - as gimmicky as coffee-flavored pasta sounds - and go straight for the miraculous rum-spiked zabaglione. The French novelist Stendhal considered Pedrocchi the best restaurant in Italy, and so loved the zabaglione that he wrote about it in The Charterhouse of Parma. Pedrocchi returned the favor by immortalizing the passage on a plaque in the "white" room. A small hole on the opposite wall is a souvenir from...
Richard Price grew up in a housing project in the Bronx. He lives now with his wife and two teenage daughters in a fancy-funky town house off Gramercy Park in Manhattan, the kind of place you head for after you make a few million as a novelist and screenwriter. The author of Clockers and Freedomland - lush, knowing, best-selling books about struggle and redemption in the projects - has been up in that high-priced league for more than a decade. Which means that in the eyes of the world, he suffers from a variation of the Bruce Springsteen Problem...
...novels make moral arguments, although some of them are more subtle than others, according to novelist Zadie Smith, who spoke at Agassiz Theater yesterday...
...Lydon says. “The Whole Wide World is the radio program that asks you to help sort the trends that could kill us from the ones that could make us stronger, maybe wiser.” Recently, Lydon has been enthusiastic about Amin Maalouf, a French-Lebanese novelist, historian, and illuminator of the identity riddle...
...some cases the relationship between patient and caregiver can take on the character of a duel, wits on one side, willpower on the other. Eleanor Cooney's mother was brilliant and glamorous, a successful novelist who once won a beauty contest judged by Frank Sinatra. In Death in Slow Motion (HarperCollins; 251 pages), Cooney chronicles her mother's gradual, grinding dissolution--"death's warm-up act," Cooney calls it--describing the hallucinations and the circular conversations, the fits of rage and neediness that wreck her own life and get her mother kicked out of her nursing home...