Word: novelistically
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...hero, here renamed Dexter Cornell (Dennis Quaid, charming even unto death), is determined not to go gentle into that good night. He will devote his final hours to finding out who slipped him slow-acting but irreversible poison. But Cornell is no longer an accountant. He is a blocked novelist, cynically teaching college lit. The new twist is that Cornell's death, not to mention several others, is motivated not by the usual lusts (money, sex, power) but by dark literary passions. How far we have come from 1949, when it was a boring old iridium shipment that set everyone...
...Semiotician and Novelist (The Name of the Rose) Umberto...
...some ways, Superman's relentless virtue goes even beyond virtue. In his extraterrestrial origins and the shining purity of his altruism, some commentators have detected a divine aura. "Superman, I've always thought, is an angel," says Andrew Greeley, gadfly Roman Catholic priest and best-selling novelist. "Probably the angel stories found in all of the world's religions are traces of the work in our world of Superman and his relatives. Who is to say I'm wrong?" Proponents of the angel theory believe it is no accident that when Superman is in full flight, his flared collar...
...academic pressure has not stopped scholars from leading a double life, scholar by day and novelist by night. Now Thomas Mallon has returned to the scene of Segal's crime, Arts and Sciences, his first fictional work, tells the story of a young man's passage into adulthood in Cambridge, Mass...
Western perceptions of Africa are based on preconceptions and not first-hand knowledge, a prominent Nigerian novelist told an audience of more than 175 people yesterday at Boylston Hall...