Word: novelists
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...essay is nothing if not a declaration of independence from victim art. Some of her supporters have pointed out that feelings of pity or guilt can be used by artists as a bribe, just as an unearned emotion of political solidarity was often used in the 1930s. But novelist Reynolds Price, who has survived spinal cancer and last year published an acclaimed memoir about his experience (A Whole New Life), wonders if Still/Here represents a new body of art that will be increasingly hard to ignore. "There are a tremendous number of people who survive in ways that wouldn...
Writer Salman Rushdie is still under a death threat from Iran. Today, Iran's official Islamic Propagation Organization announced a "great competition" to mark the sixth year of its fatwa against the novelist-in-hiding for penning "The Satanic Verses," which offended Muslims. Under contest rules, the author of the best short story about Rushdie's "moments of fear and anxiety" will win 10 gold coins. (Second and third place winners get five and three gold coins, respectively.) Entries must be submitted by Apr. 20. It was unclear whether Rushdie himself is eligible...
...BRITISH NOVELIST ANITA BROOKNER'S 12th book comes as a welcome surprise-just when it looked as if she had settled into Barbara Pym's world of lonely females without Pym's wit and trenchant insight into character. Written from the point of view of a just retired bachelor businessman, George Bland, who becomes enthralled with a heedless, scheming young woman, A Private View (Random House; 242 pages; $23) is not only wise but funny...
...Californians looked to the sky this time (as opposed to, say, the ground), they were once more affirming, as Christopher Isherwood advised, that to live there with peace of mind requires accepting the possibility of great reversal. "There is no security in your mansions or your fortresses," the late novelist wrote, "your family vaults or your banks or your double beds. Understand this fact, and you will be free. Accept it and you will be happy...
...featured last, her story playing dessert as Fisher's did hors d'ocuvre. But the entree, naturally, is Reardon's portrait of Julia Child, the six foot tall throaty-voiced diva who brought bouillabaise to thousands of living rooms. Julia--who in college wanted to be either a novelist or a professional basketball player and liked to perform tom-tom dances, who sought during WWII to be trained as a spy and was eventually posted to Ceylon, who finally turned to cooking--Julia dominates the book...