Word: novelists
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...Dennis Potter?s miniseries masterpiece, a novelist, chained to his hospital bed with a grotesquely disfiguring skin disease, plots revenge on all those who have loved him not quite enough. I?d call it, with Krzysztof Kieslowski?s ?Decalog,? the great film of the 80s. Now it?s available on DVD, with all the usual add-ons, and with Michael Gambon?s searing central performance intact. A must-buy: your intellectual life is incomplete without...
DIED. JOHN GREGORY DUNNE, 71, novelist, essayist and (in collaboration with his wife Joan Didion) screenwriter; of a heart attack; in New York City. For five years in the late '50s, he was a writer for TIME. His novels (Dutch Shea, Jr.; True Confessions) were full of Irishry--tough and compassionate, knowing without being cynical, true expressions of a complicated, cranky, lovable man whose hatred of hypocrisy was legendary. But his best subject was Hollywood, which he anatomized in two books (Monster; The Studio) and many articles. These were inside jobs--but without the malevolence and condescension many writers bring...
...Spice Garden should be notable, if for no other reason, as the first serious novel in English about the sectarian violence in Indonesia after the fall of Suharto. Vatikiotis solves one of the main problems facing the journalist-novelist by cutting himself free from actual events and creating an imaginary spice island he names Noli. He even invents for it a spice?"a hairy nut the size of a plum that stubbornly refused to grow anywhere else...
...DIED. JOHN GREGORY DUNNE, 71, novelist, essayist and (in collaboration with his wife Joan Didion) screenwriter; in New York City. His novels (Dutch Shea, Jr.; True Confessions) were full of Irishry-tough and compassionate, knowing without being cynical, true expressions of a complicated, cranky, lovable man whose hatred of hypocrisy was legendary. But his best subject was Hollywood, which he anatomized in two books (Monster; The Studio) and many articles. These were inside jobs-but without the malevolence and condescension many writers bring to their true tales of movie work. Dunne generally preferred (for their passion and honesty) the "bullies...
JOHN STEINBECK, novelist, in a 1943 newspaper column praising the comedian's contribution in entertaining U.S. troops overseas during World...