Word: novelists
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...Hear The Sirens” adopts the party-pop ethos of 2003’s “Dangerous Magical Noise.” The undeniable standout track is “Leopardman At C&A,” a sinister rocker with lyrics by graphic novelist Alan Moore of “V for Vendetta” fame. The song, based on the graphic novel of the same name, paints a savage, futuristic world of “barcode face tattoos,” “vegan cannibals,” and barbarians that...
Todd took a literary approach to guilt by exploring shame and forgiveness as a theme for Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky...
...show’s one-night-only stop at the Adams House Pool Theater. Every play and painting and song may be an attempt at art, but not all of them succeed. True art provides more than entertainment or information. There’s something else there, something elusive. Novelist Vladimir Nabokov argued that you feel art in your spine, where it prompts a “telltale tingle” of aesthetic bliss.In search of this tingle, I filed into the packed theater and took my seat. There was a golden pole on a stand at one side...
...told the Associated Press. Born in Japan to American parents, she spent much of her early life abroad, an experience that informed her stories. Imperiled-but-wily female protagonists and the men they loved featured prominently in her work, but Whitney considered herself more mystery writer than romance novelist. She was named a grand master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1988, its highest honor...
...life story of Imre Kertész is so remarkable that, at times, it threatens to overshadow any story he could invent. Deported to Auschwitz at the age of 14, he survived both the Holocaust and the Hungarian Stalinist regime to become a Nobel Prize-winning novelist. He wrote the semi-autobiographical novel “Fatelessness” about his experiences in the concentration camps only to have it refused, in 1975, by one of two publishing houses in Hungary on the grounds that it was “anti-Semitic.” When he won the Nobel...