Word: novelistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...measure ourselves against. It takes a story to make a story. It takes a story of mythic dimensions. In the Protestant South, the Scriptures fill this role." She asserts her Catholicism with a most graceful catholicity. "The writer should never be ashamed of staring," she wrote. "When the Catholic novelist closes his own eyes and tries to see with the eyes of the Church, the result is another addition to that large body of pious trash for which we have so long been famous." Instead, she consciously sought to use her belief as the light by which she saw, making...
...novelist, Grubb has written about Appalachian violence before. The Night of the Hunter (1954), his first book, is a shadowy work about a murderous preacher who chases a couple of kids up and down the Ohio River. The Voices of Glory (1962), a moody, backward-looking novel, has its share of crazy thunderation. They offer some clue as to why the "muttering meanness" guff in this book turns out to be more than just a touch overwritten...
...most campus rebels get implicit support from their parents in the form of money for college costs, but some also receive explicit endorsement for their activism. "I'm quite certain that if I were 23 or 24, I'd be out there with the students," says Novelist Laura Z. Hobson (Gentleman's Agreement), whose son was among the 42 rebels expelled after last winter's sit-in at the University of Chicago. Using newspaper advertisements, Mrs. Hobson is helping to conduct a parental protest campaign against the expulsions, which she denounces as "overkill" in reaction...
...from the Bard of Avon to the Good Ship Lollipop, elegant divertissements for all occasions ?such things can be expected of Nabokov. But that is far from all. Russian by birth, a U.S. citizen who now lives in Switzerland, he has become, at 70, the greatest living American novelist, and the most original writer and stylist since Joyce. He is also an exile, a man who has triumphantly survived this century of the refugee, a man who has lost everything, yet transformed his losses through art and levity into a habitation of the mind...
...creative method is parody. His creatures are not symbols or branches snatched from The Golden Bough. But they are haunted by literary ancestors. Enjoying parody requires knowledge of the literary forms and fashions being spoofed?which is one reason why Nabokov is difficult. "He is not the kind of novelist," says Anthony Burgess, "whom you sit down to with a Scotch or an apple." In a rare moment of explicit self-exposure, Nabokov once explained: "While I keep everything on the very brink of parody, there must be on the other hand an abyss of seriousness, and I must make...