Word: novelists
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Panelist Meridith Tax, a novelist and historian who is president of a group called Women's WORLD, struck a note of humor during a discussion about the ideal, albeit hypothetical, 'superwoman' who can skillfully balance a family and a career...
...Little Night Music and Follies were soon to come. This revival provides a useful vantage for surveying the second half of a venturesome, glittering career. Among those American artists today whose livelihood is linked to words and wordplay, Sondheim holds a unique preeminence. There's no contemporary novelist, poet or essayist who is so indisputably at the top of his or her field as Sondheim is of his. As a song lyricist, he has no plausible peer...
...more pennies for his pages. Though not matching the sums paid for recent works by hot novelists like Michael Crichton and John Grisham, Evans got a bigger publishing advance--and more money from Hollywood--than any other first novelist in history. "It's probably good that, once in a while, someone proves the brass ring can be snatched," says Michael Korda, editor in chief at Simon & Schuster. "Otherwise, it's like a casino where none of the slot machines ever...
...HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW, THE name Michael Crichton will be a trivia answer, and his books will be out of print, worth nothing but regret for the trees felled to make them. Meanwhile, America's true pre-eminent novelist of ideas and scientific conundrums, Don DeLillo, will be taught in university courses, read in classic paperback reprints and celebrated for his genius. Why is the future always smarter than the present? DAN POPE West Hartford, Connecticut...
Vidal is a first-rate essayist, one of America's finest, though a rather more pedestrian novelist and playwright. His memoir lacks the sharp, confident voice of his essays, while the characters, like those in his novels and plays, often come across as wooden and two dimensional. He complains over and over to the reader of his frayed memory, his disinclination to look backward, his lack of a diary (he relies altogether too much on other people's memoirs instead). As a result, Palimpsest has a kind of haphazard feel, with the present frequently intruding upon the past...