Word: novelists
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This is the type of human drama that fills the bizarre literary world of novelist John Irving. The author of the 1978 bestseller, The World According to Garp, Irving writes with a perpetual sense of impending doom--at any time some sort of garish literary vehicle similar to Claudio's fateful truck can roar by and rip away everything familiar and safe. In Garp, penises fly, ears get chomped, tongues are replaced with stitches, and death always looms. "In the world according to Garp," Irving explains, "an evening could be hilarious and the next morning could be murderous...
...taxi-dodging and expense-account padding, could possibly have the survival skills in the outback of a hardened countryman. Hayes Noel, 40, a trader on the floor of the American Stock Exchange in Manhattan, took the hell-yes position. The hell-no side was defended by Gaines, a novelist (Stay Hungry, Dangler) and writer for outdoor magazines, and Bob Gurnsey, 39, a New Hampshireman and sometime ski-shop owner...
...symbolic importance to the passing of the ERA and find in its final and formal defeat last week intimations of national malaise (see following story). "It is an appalling obscenity not to pass the ERA, when everyone knows women have to work and society wants them to work," says Novelist-Critic Elizabeth Hardwick. "There is an illiberal and I think tyrannical minority imposing its will on obvious needs for social change," remarks Novelist John Irving, who wrestled questions of feminism and family into contemporary myth, The World According to Garp. "Feminism is simply one of many human rights. The whole...
...resentment of old rhetorical putdowns, and some of it may have to do with resistance to being commandeered as unenlisted poli tical foot soldiers or being spoken for by proxy. "A lot of the failures of the movement are built into the people who are speaking for women," says Novelist Anne Tyler. "Basically I agree with everything they say, but I find myself wanting to disagree be cause of the way they say it. If people like me, who are prowomen, are put off by it, imagine other people." Or imagine a sympathetic parent, particularly a father, leafing through...
...previously issued Psalms and a dozen other biblical books, the new Jewish Bible is finally complete. This last section was translated by three U.S.-trained experts: Moshe Greenberg and Jonas Greenfield of He brew University in Israel and Nahum Sarna of Brandeis University. They were assisted by Novelist-Rabbi Chaim Potok (The Chosen), who served as coordinator and literary consultant. The Holy Scriptures will certainly stand as a landmark of Jewish religious scholarship...