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...Novelist and literary critic A.S. Byatt recently read a selection from her work and answered questions in the final installment of Wordsworth Bookstore's fall reading series. Visiting the United States for the first time since 1957, Byatt is promoting her latest novel, Possession, which won the 1990 Booker Prize...
...Novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, who made an unsuccessful bid for the presidency of Peru in 1990, read a long excerpt from his novel The Greenhouse...
...allegation that the novelist and the racist were one and the same was swiftly disputed by the author's executor and Asa Earl Carter's brother Doug. The latter did acknowledge that Asa wrote speeches for Alabama's George Wallace, including the infamous lines "Segregation now. Segregation tomorrow. Segregation forever!" But old friends point out that Asa and Forrest Carter looked alike, used the same address and were the same age. Perhaps the book should be retitled The Mystery of Little Tree...
...takes the reader only a few pages to realize that Ripley has had to / forfeit the novelist's right to create her own characters. Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara sprang from everything Mitchell knew and felt about a time that was still fresh in her region's memory. Ripley's self-imposed handicap shows in the dialogue. Mitchell gave her sardonic hero the best lines, hard- bitten and vivid in the Raymond Chandler style. "I've seen eyes like yours above a dueling pistol," he says to Scarlett. "They evoke no ardor in the male breast." Ripley's Rhett...
...Kafkaesque novel that owes much to the author of Portnoy's Complaint. A shapely female breast finds itself metamorphosed into a best-selling novelist named Philip Roth. The bewildered Roth is condemned to a modern version of hell: an endless series of appearances on Geraldo, Oprah and Donahue...