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...wonderful life, almost too good to be true. Grisham is rich and handsome (the only novelist on PEOPLE magazine's list of the 50 most beautiful people this year), with a happy family (a wife and two kids), a religious faith (Southern Baptist) and the vast and varied world of entertainment at his feet. Too good, it seems, not to attract some criticism. Like most widely popular novelists, he has been pummeled by reviewers -- for paper characters, bad dialogue (not true; he writes realistic talk), disappointing endings. Ray Sawhill, in Modern Review, says Grisham's books "aren't Middle America...
...Mississippi writers, Grisham is a singular aberration and paradox, the worst and the richest, the least distinguished and the most popular." The article outraged most locals, who point out that Grisham helped pay to repair the Faulkner estate and rescued a new literary periodical, the Oxford American. Says novelist Barry Hannah, who has a formidable reputation but not Grisham's millions: "I guess in America if a guy gets some fame and celebrity, he can't seem to do anything right...
...novel opens with the promise of another of Amis' feats of controlled chaos. The plot develops with the right balance of malice and merriment. At the age of 40, struggling novelist Richard Tull understands that he will never make it as a writer. His cerebral fiction no longer gets points for degree of difficulty. He reviews books for pittances, his wife earns more than he does, his children distract him, and he is impotent...
...tired of being treated as if you were born yesterday? The fashionable novelist Richard Price has done a reasonably good job of slipcovering the source of this remake's screenplay, and Schroeder has energetically tarted up his version of a film Henry Hathaway originally shot in a rather austere semi-documentary style. But the fact is that the basic situation, most of the main narrative beats and all the major characters are essentially as they were 48 years ago (as a trip to any well-stocked video store will prove...
Philip Weiss, a journalist and novelist, has reported extensively on the radical right...