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Advice to a would-be novelist: write what you know. Tip for a first-time director: show what you've seen. Ben Affleck has been living in the tabloids for so long, it might seem as if he had been born there. But no, he's a Boston kid, and for his debut in the auteur sweepstakes, he wisely chose a Dennis Lehane suspense novel set in the down-and-dirty Boston suburb of Dorchester...
...Thursday, the German author of The Tin Drum and other novels walked through the streets of the old Hanseatic League town and met with Walesa in the evening. Residents crowded the route and many appeared anxious to welcome him back . One of those greeting him was Gdansk novelist Pawel Huelle, who praised the German writer for his intellectual contributions as well as for his frequent public statements that Germany had no claim on lands lost to Poland in the war. "For all his life Grass has been against erasing memory, erasing history and putting responsibility just on history and Adolf...
...ethnic and cultural fidelity. "Can it be true that Indian writing, that endlessly rich, complex and problematic entity, is to be represented by a handful of writers who write in English, who live in England or America and whom one might have met at a party?" wondered Indian novelist Amit Chaudhuri in the Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature. Yes, wrote Rushdie in the Vintage Book of Indian Writing. "The ironic proposition that India's best writing since independence may have been done in the language of the departed imperialists," he said, "is simply too much for some folks...
...right place at the right time (not only at the Fed: as a young man, he studied music alongside future saxophone great Stan Getz, learned statistics from the guy who devised the Index of Leading Economic Indicators and thought his first deep thoughts at the personal prodding of philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand...
...waters from a bridge segues into a roll call of famous suicides and murders on the river, sealed with the observation that "The Thames has always harboured an affection for severed heads." Ackroyd attributes the moody riverside settings of Charles Dickens' Bleak House or Great Expectations to the novelist's misery at being sent as a 12-year-old to work in a ramshackle, filthy blacking factory abutting the Thames while his father was locked up in a debtors' prison. Fact and fiction are inseparable in the city of both authors: Dickens may have seen the Thames as "essentially...