Word: novelists
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...deposited his Danish wife Mette and their five children back in Copenhagen, never to see them again. Tahiti would break his heart, of course. What he knew of the island was built mostly out of visits to the Paris World's Fair and from the romantic fabrications of the novelist Pierre Loti. By the time Gauguin made the first of his two voyages, in 1891, the native culture he hoped to find had been dressed, churched and adulterated by colonial administrators and Christian missionaries...
...boundaries of acceptable public speech and behavior are pushed ever outward (nice job, Janet and Justin), it gets harder all the time to find the line between frankness and prurience - especially in young-adult literature. British novelist Melvin Burgess was clearly astride it last year with Doing It, an explicit (not to mention popular) story of schoolboy lust that he defended as realistic but many denounced as misogynistic pornography. And Burgess has plenty of company; in fact, with teen-fiction shelves groaning under the weight of cautionary tales about sex, drugs, divorce or delinquency, it's little wonder many young...
DIED. M.M. KAYE, 95, author whose 1978 masterwork, The Far Pavilions, was sometimes likened to Gone With the Wind; in Lavenham, England. Born Mary Margaret Kaye to British parents in pre-independence India, she dabbled in painting (and amateur theater, left) but earned worldwide fame as a novelist. Her richly detailed story of a British orphan who is raised as a Hindu and falls for an Indian princess became a best seller and, in 1984, an HBO mini-series...
When asked if she had always wanted to be a writer, and whether her decision to pursue a career in it was affected by her father, the novelist Nicholas Delbanco, she answers in the negative...
...Gravitation" by Maki Murakami. It falls into a splinter genre of shojo called shonen-ai, translated literally as "boy-love." Though targeted at girls, shonen-ai features the romantic relationship between two males, in this case between high-schooler and aspiring musician Shuichi and a slightly older romance novelist named Eiri Yuki. Though it features a passionate kiss, "Gravitation" and other shonen-ai never get sexually explicit. The appeal for girls seems to be in looking at two pretty boys entering into an untouchable romance. Though quite popular in Japan, very little shonen-ai has gotten translated into English...