Word: novelists
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...that outdoor table on the busiest street in the Texan capital, she standing, me sitting down, we bonded over our crush on the British novelist who first bewitched critics...
That is exactly what novelist and Wall Street Journal arts critic Francine Prose tries to do in “Caravaggio.” In this work, she often refers to the words of Caravaggio’s 16th century biographers (and more recent ones, too), and integrates all opinions about his work and his life, in order to paint her own admiring and sometimes contagiously enthusiastic portrait of a brilliant, yet quite shady, character...
...blunt, I believe that novelist George Whyte-Melville had it right when he said that “we always believe that our first Love is our last, and our last Love is our first.” In other words, the notion that you have found “the one” is most likely not true. And while long distance relationships seem feasible in theory, their success rates are dismally...
...informant with a sideline in purloined celebrity X-rays ("A colonoscope of Ana Belén? It's yours. Plates of Julio Iglesias' prostate? You'll have 'em.") Reig's gumshoe has an unusual specialty: finding fictional characters who take on a life of their own, a hazard any novelist would recognize. That's what brings Luís María Peñuelas, a writer of popular westerns, into Clot's office seeking help. Mabel Martínez, heroine of Penuelas' latest work in progress, has escaped from the pages, Roger Rabbit-style, in apparent despair over...
...would expect of Jeff Daniels. In Squid, though, viewers' laughs turn to gasps and back again as Bernard tries simultaneously to discipline and dazzle his sons. Linney is superb, and the kid actors are scary-good. But it is selfish, flailing Dad who wins the match. As the underloved novelist, Daniels has created his masterpiece. --Reported by Steven Frank/Toronto