Word: novelistic
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...hundreds, even thousands of pictures--though rarely more than one shot of any particular scene--and let his curator or editors sort it out. For "William Eggleston's Guide," John Szarkowski, the legendary MOMA photo curator, effectively served a role like the one that editor Maxwell Perkins played for novelist Thomas Wolfe, drawing a meaningful work out of a superabundant output...
...populist and contemporary (college, finding a job, looking for love) and the English is as unpretentious as a call-center cubicle. At the same time, these novels still do what novels have always done: serve as guides in a confusing world. "Suddenly, everything has changed so much," says novelist and publisher Namita Gokhale. "So people use these books to try to find where they're located in all this." And that has made the new pop fiction a runaway success. Helped additionally by low prices (novels are priced around $5) and new distribution channels (the books are sold on street...
...begins I've Loved You So Long, a finely modulated and totally absorbing first film by Philippe Claudel, who is better known, at least in France, as a novelist. In a few minutes her sister, Léa (Elsa Zylberstein), arrives to conduct Juliette to what amounts to her new life - as a guest in Léa's home, which consists of Luc, her grumpy husband, two adopted daughters and Luc's father, who is unfailingly cheerful despite the fact that a stroke has rendered him mute. It's an inherently awkward situation, rendered much more...
...book jacket designer for respected U.S. publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Chip Kidd has worked with authors from Cormac McCarthy to Michael Crichton to Haruki Murakami. He is also a twice-published novelist, graphic designer, and comics fanatic - hence Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan. Kidd talked to TIME about his superhero obsession, why books will never die, and the almighty power of Oprah Winfrey...
...agency CTK that the reports were "a nasty and incomprehensible surprise" - not least because the accused spy was nearly sentenced to death - but that it would not alter his views of the writer's work. "Everything that the writer lives through can somehow reflect in his work," wrote Czech novelist and playwright Ivan Klima, a contemporary of Kundera's in a Czech newspaper. "Perhaps only a subconscious need to come to terms with [an experience] can ignite the creation of great work. That is a paradox of creation and, in effect, of life itself." Speaking to TIME, Klima added, however...