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...clear to me what I, a white deconstructor, was doing talking about Zora Neale Hurston, a black novelist and anthropologist, or to whom I was talking... Was I talking to white critics, black critics, or myself...
...perils of first novelists have been widely, even lugubriously described. The typical sad story can be summarized with dispatch: unresponsive agents, inattentive publishers, small printings, nonexistent publicity, scattered reviews, laughable sales. Sometimes, though, this scenario breaks down. A few first novels are rapturously received, their authors transformed overnight from supplicants to stars. Then, amid the giddiness of recognition, the problem of the second novelist attacks in its most intimidating strain. What to do for an encore is one symptom, but there is worse: the knowledge that the next book, unlike the first, will have the power to disappoint...
EXPECTING. Mariel Hemingway, 25, lissome actress (Manhattan, Personal Best, Star 80) and granddaughter of Novelist Ernest Hemingway, and her husband Stephen Crisman, 37, who supervises Sam's Cafe, the couple's fashionable New York City restaurant: their first child; in December...
...Novelist Alan Paton (Cry, the Beloved Country) has elaborated: "We never trekked, we never developed a new language, we were never defeated in war, we never had to pick ourselves out of the dust." Paton, 84, once served as president of the now defunct Liberal Party and feels the Afrikaners' tribal sense outweighed the English fondness for making money and playing golf. "The English here don't want to rule everything and everybody," he says. "Both Afrikaners and English have a love of the country, but the Afrikaner's love is in general more fierce, more emotional, more aggressive...
...Maurice Oldfield, the late chief of MI6, Britain's supersecret intelligence service, was a scholarly, chubby and unprepossessing bachelor. He enjoyed an impeccable reputation, and was said to be the prototype for Novelist John le Carre's spy master, George Smiley. But unlike Smiley, Oldfield had a dark secret that has posthumously cast a shadow over his career...