Word: novelists
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This pragmatism is a faith that recalls nothing so much as the objectivist philosophy of the novelist and social critic Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged), which Greenspan has studied intently. During long nights at Rand's apartment and through her articles and letters, Greenspan found in objectivism a sense that markets are an expression of the deepest truths about human nature and that, as a result, they will ultimately be correct...
...novelist, Amis has demonstrated a facility for inversion (Time's Arrow runs history backward). Here the story Straight Fiction posits a society in which homosexuality is the social norm and heterosexuals are fearful of discovery. Career Move illustrates what might happen if poems rather than prose became movie material. "The only thing we have a problem on 'Sonnet' with...is the form," says a Hollywood producer to a dismayed poet...
...Novelist E.L. Doctorow, one of the speakers at the NYU rally, compared the Starr investigation to the McCarthyism of the 1950s...
...legend, shunned yet desired by Milton, who cannot regain it, all his monumental words raising only a pandemonium finally becalmed by Blake, who walks its shadows to find the city become Jerusalem. All three men were Londoners--as is Ackroyd. "It's always been ugly, a vandalized city," the novelist and biographer said recently. "But I hope it stays that way because that's its nature." His next book, he says, will be a biography of London itself. That should be quite the event. In its guilty streets, he has already found the footprints of the most enigmatic saints...
...Novelist Edna Buchanan's Garden of Evil will be published next year. She won the Pulitzer Prize...