Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DOUGLAS COUPLAND wrote the short story Clone, Clone on the Range for us with less than three days' notice--a particularly tight deadline for a novelist. The subject matter, however, sparked his creativity, and he produced his satirical tale well ahead of schedule. "Massive scientific ruptures like this one are so rare and powerful and alluring," says Coupland, whose previous books, including Generation X and Microserfs, often explored science issues. "A good jolt is good for the brain, and the news is so jolting--it's a good match." As for the technology, Coupland says, since...
Several motels and murders later, and in between cameos by such veteran outragers as Richard Pryor, Henry Rollins and Mink Stole, we notice the signposts. This is a milder Wild at Heart, the 1990 road movie that, like this one, Lynch wrote with novelist Barry Gifford...
Unless he has adapted to the new era, as has the one who calls himself Juvenal in writer-director Paul Schrader's sly and nicely understated adaptation of novelist Elmore Leonard's Touch. Played by Skeet Ulrich, he has done time in the wilderness, suffers the stigmata and can cure the incurable by the laying on of hands. Otherwise, though, he's a cool dude. He likes girls, shows no particular interest in spreading any sort of gospel and turns a politely bemused face toward the hustlers and lowlifes who swarm around when word of his preternatural healing gifts starts...
...going to feed a writer, expect to get your hand bitten. It is the nature of the beast, as demonstrated with appropriate relish by John Gregory Dunne in Monster: Living Off the Big Screen (Random House; 203 pages; $21). Dunne is a journalist and novelist who, with his wife Joan Didion, another producer of stinging reportage and fiction, pays the family bills by writing movie scripts. Among those that made it to the cineplexes in one version or another are the Barbra Streisand remake of A Star Is Born and the Robert Redford-Michelle Pfeiffer showcase, Up Close and Personal...
DIED. BOHUMIL HRABAL, 82, Czech novelist who wrote of life under oppression and whose Closely Watched Trains, about the Nazi Occupation, became an Oscar-winning film; in Prague...