Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are other next times. Lucy enrolls in a writing class at the New School, and becomes enthralled with the young novelist who teaches the course. The pattern repeats: she romanticizes his gifts, is disappointed, buys her way out of the affair. She enrolls at the Art Students League and, after years, when she finally musters the courage to show her best work to two friends who are professionals, is told the paintings are "nice." She asks for a drink, and gives...
...both generations are likely to suspect that the father's glory enhanced them. That psychic battleground is toured by Michael J. Arlen, 53, a journalist, memoirist and television critic of The New Yorker, yet seemingly fated to be known always as the son of the celebrated '20s novelist Michael Arlen (The Green Hat). Say Goodbye to Sam is told in the first person, and much of its detail is so close to Arlen's life that it is tempting to read the book as therapy or revenge. But it works, elegiacally and sometimes forcefully, as fiction...
Ever since French Novelist Prosper Mérimée locked a lustful Navarrese soldier and a lubricious Spanish gypsy in fatal embrace, Don José and his Carmen have danced their deadly Habanera through ligh art and mass culture. Although burdened with a sanitized libretto, Composer Georges Bizet transformed Mérimée's cautionary tale into a supercharged epic of erotic obsession that has become a fecund source of material for generations of movie directors. Cinematic treatments have run the gamut from Charlie Chaplin's burlesque Carmen (1916) to the soft-porn Carmen, Baby...
...literary New York, it was the equivalent of somebody's winning the state lottery. A middle-aged novelist, burdened with debts, a leaky roof and a bruised ego, suddenly found himself celebrated and rich. It was as sudden as the surprise phone call that informed William Kennedy, 56, that the MacArthur Foundation was giving him one of its "genius awards": $264,000 tax free with no strings attached...
...sequel, If the Old Could . . ., published early this year, would probably have found its way to a remainder bin if the real author had not revealed herself last week. The literary world on both sides of the Atlantic was astonished to find that the celebrated British novelist Doris Lessing was behind the elaborate hoax...