Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have no empathy for the victims in Humanoids, Prom Night, or Friday the 13th-- dubbed by horror novelist Stephen King in a Phoenix interview as a "snuff movie," where the audience waits eagerly for 13 campers and counsellors to be gorily dispatched. The violence in these low-budget horror films signals a new irreverence for the human body: no longer a vessel for the mind or soul but for blood, bone, pus, intestine and anything else that can come spurting, splashing, oozing, or quivering out; a source of irridescent colors, strange and squashy textures, squishing and crunching sounds. Devising these...
DIED. George R. Stewart, 85, prolific novelist and scholar of literature, American history, forestry and meteorology who received acclaim for his "weather novels" Storm and Fire; in San Francisco. A professor of English for 38 years at the University of California at Berkeley, Stewart battled the regents over the "nonCommunist loyalty oath" required of faculty in 1950, and later documented the experience in The Year of the Oath. Also recognized as an authority on onomastics, the science of names, he noted in American Place-Names that Deathball Rock, Ore., commemorated "an unsuccessful attempt to make biscuits...
...Capua has edited such acclaimed writers as Larry Woiwode and Michael Arlen. A major project now is the result of one man's highly unusual childhood. Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany is a forthcoming memoir by Joel Agee, son of the late film critic and novelist James Agee. In 1941, Agee and his wife Alma divorced. She took Joel, then a year old, to live...
Mexico, where she met and married Bodo Uhse, a Communist novelist and fugitive from Nazism. After the war the family went to East Germany, where Joel lived for twelve years...
William Styron, novelist, on political conventions: "I don't like all those people in funny hats, and I don't like the cocktail parties, and I don't like people from places I never heard of. Like South Dakota...