Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...After Sufiya Zinobia recovered from the immunological catastrophe that followed the turkey massacre ..." Coming upon a sentence that opens like this can make readers of the novel in which it appears begin to wonder what is on the tube tonight. They might also find themselves talking back to the novelist...
...style is so immediate, his sense of phrasing so vital, that readers cannot be blamed for blurring the distinction between the writer and his creation. Even Claire Bloom, with whom Roth shares a "paperless marriage," sometimes slips and says "you" when referring to Zuckerman. Bloom, 52, and the novelist, 50, have been together seven years. Roth's only marriage ended when his wife, Margaret Martinson, was killed in a 1968 car accident. The couple had been separated for five years; they had no children...
There he discovered familiar diversions, among them prostitutes and Scotch. His great affair with Lillian Hellman did not spur him to write nor, according to this intriguing and detailed account by Novelist Diane Johnson (Lying Low), did it change his habits. Despite his proclaimed affection for Hellman, he continued to patronize ladies of the evening and once asked her to join in a threesome (she declined). Hammett admired Marxism more than the U.S. Communist Party but joined a celebrity cell where he indulged in what Budd Schulberg called "dialectical materialism by the pool." In 1951, long after most film radicals...
...this rich compendium, Novelist Mordecai Richler attempts to lift humorists out of the high chair and onto the Louis Quinze. He ransacks old collections and ranges through the century, from Stephen Leacock to Fran Lebowitz. Anything that smacks of adolescence is jettisoned: "You will meet with no Dorothy Parker here... I found her comic stories brittle, short on substance." And nothing mild is allowed: to go through Robert Benchley's work is "to discover a good many of his sketches astonishingly bland, disarmingly gentle." The 65 pieces that pass Richler's scrutiny are trenchant, acrimonious and sharp. Most...
...British Novelist John Mortimer remembers a friend easily intimidated by girls' bodies. After a sexual initiation, Mortimer inquires, " 'How on earth did you manage?' 'Manage?' 'About the breasts, of course.' 'Perfectly all right.' Oliver gave a smile of satisfied achievement. 'You hardly notice them at all.' " But Nora Ephron's A Few Words About Breasts notices nothing but: "What can I tell you? If I had had them, I would have been a completely different person...