Word: novelistically
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...stability and security came to these people from movement rather than from ordinary life rooted on the land. Identities were transformed. Nothing like it had been seen before on the continent, and nothing like it has been seen since. Except for Hurricane Katrina. I'M SURE THERE ARE NOVELISTS ALREADY TAKING A CRACK AT KATRINA. Probably there will be. Certainly I'm not the kind of novelist who turns around quickly. I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write...
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A HISTORIAN WRITING HISTORY AND A NOVELIST? The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like...
...genre, which may have netted Ł40 million ($70 million in U.S. currency) or even more--the precise figure has not been revealed--will doubtless spawn its own literary offspring. It has certainly got the goods: a daring robbery, a terrified family, a collection of pub names that a novelist couldn't improve upon and, if the many early breaks in the case continue, a quick win for the police...
...Night appeared in France with an introduction by [French novelist Fran?ois] Mauriac. The little book set the Wiesel style: austere, tense phrases articulating the unspeakable?the murder and torture of the innocent, the martyrdom of faith itself as a child watches the hanging of another child: 'Where is God? Where is he? ... And I heard a voice within me answer: Where is he? Here he is?he is hanging here on this gallows.' Some 20 American publishers rejected Night. 'The Holocaust was not something people wanted to know about in those days,' the author remembers. 'The diary of Anne Frank...
...book deal while still in her first year at the College. “When I heard the size of the advance, I nearly fell off my chair,” Cohen told The New York Sun last year. “I have several novelist friends, and nobody I know has received that kind of money. I’m very proud of her — and I’m proud that I was able to play a role in her success.” The half-million dollar deal is unusual considering...