Word: novelists
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...best known is Joan Didion, a native Californian with literary and intellectual power bases in Los Angeles and Manhattan. Lengthy excerpts from her book, simply titled Miami (Simon & Schuster; 240 pages; $17.95), appeared over the summer in the New York Review of Books. Didion's credentials as ; novelist and essayist are well established. Play It as It Lays set the '70s standard for Southern California malaise, and her journalism was carefully calibrated to record fine cracks in sanity and personal relationships. She has expanded more recent reportage and fiction (Salvador, Democracy) to poke along the fault lines of the commonweal...
...proposal, ghostwritten by Novelist Les Whitten, portrayed the plucky heroine rebuffing Nelson Rockefeller when he surprised her in the shower "wearing nothing more than a puckish smile" and backing out of a bedroom encounter with Robert Kennedy. When the predictable furor erupted, Braden claimed she was an author wronged: her literary agent submitted the proposal without her final approval. "Of course, Joan approved it," says Braden's agent. "She's just getting cold feet." Braden does not deny the incidents in the manuscript. But they may be blue-penciled from a presumably tamer version she is planning with her husband...
...embroiled in its practice then. Those who possessed and those who were possessed struggled, like most people at all times, everywhere, to get through their days; neither history nor the exigencies of survival allowed them much time for meditation or outrage. To portray the texture of such lives, a novelist must be willing to forgo reflective indignation and let the characters and details speak for themselves...
Much has been made of George Higgins' gift of gab and nose for original sin. Much should be made. Since The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1972), the lawyer- novelist has proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is more than a prolific genre writer about Boston's hoods and pols. His 13 novels have moved steadily beyond a cynical cop's-eye view toward a harsh realism that is informed by experience, reflection and cauterizing...
While polls show that about 60% of Peruvians support Garcia's policy, the debate over nationalization has broken the broad consensus that sustained him through his first two years. Already there are suggestions that the right will unite behind Vargas Llosa, but the novelist denies he is seeking political office. "I'm a writer and nothing more," he says. "If this wretched law were suspended in the Senate, I would go back to my study." Few take his demurrals seriously. Vargas Llosa has himself brooded over his obsession with his homeland. "For me," he has said, "Peru is a kind...