Word: novelists
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...English rose with thorns, and she will have her revenge. Charles' future? Shoot him--put him out of his misery. He is Hamlet. He is a man who equates being worried with being intelligent, and of course they are not the same thing." JULIE BURCHILL, novelist, founder of the Modern Review, a satirical journal...
DIED. ELEANOR CLARK, 82, essay writer and novelist whose stylish books on Rome and Brittany used travel as a springboard for evocative explorations of culture and history; in Boston. She was the widow of the novelist Robert Penn Warren...
...story begins New Years' Eve, 1970, when Fuentes, an acclaimed Mexican novelist, meets Diana Soren. From there, the reader is carried through FBI intrigue, encounters with the Black Panthers, sexual jealousy with Mexican revolutionaries. This novel leaves no stone untouched. It is an extraordinary chronicle of a history intertwined with art, and forever surrounded by love, lust, and humiliation...
...endure to please his audience. They have something else: a bracing athletic grace. The fights are as exuberant and abstract as the dances in a Busby Berkeley musical. And Chan is a superb physical artist, whether leaping off cliffs or hanging from a bus by an umbrella handle. As novelist Donald E. Westlake put it, "Jackie Chan is Fred Astaire, and the world is Ginger Rogers...
Phillips' interest in California is pervades other areas of her life as well. Her doctoral dissertation is about Helen Hunt Jackson, a nineteenth-century Californian poet, essayist, novelist and reformer. Jackson was one of the first to portray the bleaker side of life in California...