Word: novelists
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...Expos teacher said, ‘Please go in to the sciences, you are the worst writer ever.’ But that’s okay, because I think she was a struggling novelist...
...entry into the genre, which may have netted ?40 million ($70 million) or even more - the precise figure has not been revealed - will doubtless spawn its own literary offspring. It's certainly got the goods: a daring robbery, a terrified family, a collection of pub names that a novelist couldn't improve upon, and, if the many early breaks in the case continue, a quick win for the police. The business started with what's known in the trade as a "tiger kidnapping." (The tiger, see, stalks its prey.) Colin Dixon, 51, the manager of a security depot that stores...
...Palais Royal, where Louis XIV played as a boy. Some shopping at the surrounding stores and boutiques is essential, followed by dinner at Le Grand Véfour (17 Rue Beaujolais), located at the northern entrance of the garden. Be sure to ask for the booth where [the French novelist] Colette sat. Then why not catch the show at Le Moulin Rouge (82 Boulevard de Clichy). Everyone should, at least once...
...genre, which may have netted £40 million ($70 million in U.S. currency) or even more--the precise figure has not been revealed--will doubtless spawn its own literary offspring. It has certainly got the goods: a daring robbery, a terrified family, a collection of pub names that a novelist couldn't improve upon and, if the many early breaks in the case continue, a quick win for the police...
...Night appeared in France with an introduction by [French novelist Fran?ois] Mauriac. The little book set the Wiesel style: austere, tense phrases articulating the unspeakable?the murder and torture of the innocent, the martyrdom of faith itself as a child watches the hanging of another child: 'Where is God? Where is he? ... And I heard a voice within me answer: Where is he? Here he is?he is hanging here on this gallows.' Some 20 American publishers rejected Night. 'The Holocaust was not something people wanted to know about in those days,' the author remembers. 'The diary of Anne Frank...