Word: novelists
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...grew up amongst the scientists,” Margaret Atwood says wistfully, seated in the lobby of the Kendall Square Hotel. The Canadian novelist seems completely at home in the cement-block shadow of MIT, where she spoke last week, as well she should...
...alarming fact you'll learn from songstress SHAKIRA'S new DVD documentary, Shakira Live and Off the Record, is that belly dancing causes tendinitis. Another is that she's chummy with Nobel-prizewinning novelist and fellow Colombian GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ, who, in the film, visits Shakira backstage in Mexico City, where he lives. In the movie Shakira describes the author as "one of those people who will never die, for sure not in my heart." The two met in 1999 when Garcia Marquez interviewed Shakira for a magazine, a planned one-hour chat that lasted five. Comparing navel rings perhaps...
Turning Point Novelist Toni Morrison talks about growing up in Lorain, Ohio, and the lessons she learned from her mother
...island that has suffered decades of bloodshed and dictatorship--not to mention the possession of souls--seems to offer a formidable prospect for a novelist: What fiction can possibly stand up to such charged reality? Danticat, though, only 35 and already the author of three acclaimed works of fiction on her ill-starred home and one work of nonfiction, is undaunted. In The Dew Breaker she brings together myriad perspectives on the central torturer into a kind of mosaic. "It's a puzzle," as a teenage killer in one story says, "but a weird-ass kind of puzzle." A stained...
Such is the pathos of the Manhattan Front Row Girls (FRGs) depicted in British fashionista turned novelist Plum Syke’s new novel Bergdorf Blondes, to be released in April by Miramax Books. The light-hearted, designer label-laden novel is latest of the “chick-lit” fiction craze that has spawned a plethora of unlikely pop heroines from Bridget Jones to Sex and the City’s Samantha Jones...