Word: novelists
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...tradition of Pirandello and the Coen brothers Brad Rouse has put the life of the author centerstage. Supposing Rommilly tells the story of Paul (Bred Rouse), a budding novelist with writer's block. He faces not only his own frustrations, but also the wrath of his characters, who demand a conclusion to the work-in-progress...
...Novelist Jane Smiley won the fiction award for A Thousand Acres, a heartrending Americanization of King Lear in which a prosperous Iowa farmer divides his land among three daughters. Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet by Lewis B. Puller Jr. was cited in the biography category. Puller, whose late father "Chesty" was America's most decorated Marine, lost both his legs while serving as a lieutenant in Vietnam. The son's memoir provides unsparing commentary on how the nation has survived the agonies and complexities of that bitter conflict...
...just as soon die as give them a dime. History is not so easily intimidated. When World War II begins, his adolescent son Joey (Tony Gillan), inflamed by news of the death camps, enlists in the Navy with tragic results. The surviving son, Charlie (Tony Shalhoub), becomes a prosperous novelist but fails at everything else, from marriage to filial affection. Zaretsky's very life is a reproach: the "dying man with a dead language and no place to go" becomes a millionaire and survives to age 93. Eddie, ever the loser, is incapacitated by a stroke...
Acclaimed novelist David Leavitt read from an unpublished work to an audience of 150 people last night at the Graduate School of Education, in the opening event of Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Awareness Days...
This year's celebration of Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Awareness Days (BGLAD) opens today with a talk by prominent gay novelist David Leavitt and a student reception at Lowell House...