Word: novelists
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Appearing on Oprah and Larry King touting her autobiography, She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, novelist JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN told how she stayed married to her wife after her sex change. It's a transsexual tale even pro-family groups might love...
That's a feeling she particularly took away from Capote, in which she played the writer's lifelong best friend, novelist Harper Lee. Lee is a reclusive personality, and the part is essentially a passive one, but she is the only secure anchor in Capote's demonically narcissistic reality. The film's director, Bennett Miller, cites a seemingly small moment in the film as an example of Keener's brilliance. Lee and Truman Capote are at a party after the premiere of the movie version of her one book, To Kill a Mockingbird. It's her night...
...their high academic achievements, a reflection of their parents' drive for a certain kind of success. But that is only part of their story. Shuttling between two worlds?and seeming to fit into neither?many felt as if "they had no community," says Chang-rae Lee, a Korean-American novelist who has written about this generation's journey. "They had to create themselves." In doing so, they have updated the old immigrant story and forged a new Asian-American identity, not wholly recognizable in any of their parents' native lands but, in its hybrid nature, vibrantly American...
...whose life of late-Victorian virtue goes all squiffy when he accidentally acquires a passion for a woman not his wife. Doyle also acquires a late-life project in the form of George Edalji, a half-Indian lawyer who was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned. Barnes, a top-shelf British novelist whose work doesn't always cross the Atlantic well, has created a slow-burning, enlargingly human tale of reasonable men whose expectations about the world are first deeply disappointed and then strangely redeemed...
DIED. RONA JAFFE, 74, novelist best known for The Best of Everything, published in 1958 and quickly turned into a movie by 20th Century Fox; of cancer, in London. Written with a canny eye to film adaptation, the book followed the fortunes of four beautiful stenographers torn between love and ambition, a pre-feminist precursor of Sex and the City...