Word: novelists
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DIED. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, 83, novelist, cult figure and perhaps the most audacious member of a Beat Generation trinity whose two other divinities were Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg; after a heart attack; in Lawrence, Kans. Burrough's groundbreaking novel Naked Lunch, first published in Paris in 1959, was both praised as a work of genius and denounced as incomprehensible garbage and pornography. His life was as extreme as the experimental fiction he pioneered, involving alcohol, heroin, homosexuality, a celebrated obscenity trial in Boston and, in 1951, his accidental killing of his wife while shooting a glass...
Beat Generation novelist and icon William S. Burroughs '36 died Saturday in Lawrence, Kansas of a heart attack...
Nonsense, says a novelist who sits in Da Silvano restaurant every day, same window table, smoking Marlboro Lights. "The federal witness-protection program is welfare for rats," Nick Tosches says, referring to the low-life grunts who have testified, "and if they convict Gigante through these nefarious means, it's a death knell for this neighborhood. You used to be able to leave your doors and windows open around here. For years Gigante has been a benevolent presence, and I'd rather have him as a neighbor than any cop in the Sixth Precinct...
...metaphors can be equine. She has said she is not a workhorse, not a racehorse, but a show horse. She brings up a fictional character who looked "impossibly sad, like a horse's eyes." It is a quote, she says, from Nabokov, and she pronounces the novelist's name correctly, with the stress on the second syllable, exactly as exacting old Vladimir used to instruct his readers. He might have been able to appreciate this latest of pop goddesses, this star of the Lilith Fair. After all, it was a Nabokov character who said that while he was capable...
...fiction. In fact, both he and Austin seem more like sounding boards than characters capable of making their own music. Not so 17-year-old Larry and his delightfully blowsy Aunt Doris in Jealous, a finely tuned 58-page tale that immediately reminds us that Ford is the gifted novelist who wrote The Sportswriter and Independence...