Word: novelization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they seem shy and tentative. The professor tries to loosen them up: "A good writer steals from other writers," he says. "Got to be willing to steal, to pillage." Got to be willing, Russell Banks might say to himself, to be merely very good in novel after novel while critics use words like talented and valuable and consign you to the respectable second rank...
...busted out after a few months with a case of what he calls "turbulence." By 19 he had married. By 20 he had fathered a child and would soon be divorced. (He has been married for nine years to his fourth wife, poet Chase Twichell.) He had written a novel, not published, and had run off to fight for Castro (not quite getting there; instead dressing mannequins for a department store in Lakeland, Fla.). Before this, at 16, he had stolen a car and Kerouacked off to California. Earlier still, he had learned to keep his head down; his father...
...eerie sensation to read Jane Smiley's prankish new novel, set in pre-Civil War Kansas, after campaigning with the fiery abolitionist John Brown through the same time and terrain in Russell Banks' thunderous epic Cloudsplitter. The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (Knopf; 448 pages; $26) follows Lidie, a sturdy young Illinois bride, to the dust-blown outpost of Lawrence, Kans., in the tumultuous year of 1855. Lawrence is a raw, ill-favored roost of newly arrived Free Soil settlers, jostled by drunken proslave irregulars from Missouri and protected, mostly with words, by gassy politicians. John Brown...
...other lines, Ginsberg asks if Levinsky trembles when the cock crows and employs such words as dissemble, tearful and fearful. The Levinsky in the poem is actually Leon Levinsky, a relatively minor character in Jack Kerouac's first novel, The Town and the City...
DIED. ERNST JUNGER, 102, militaristic German writer, in Wilflingen, Germany. Junger's controversial early novels extolled German nationalism and totalitarianism and attracted a following among the emerging Nazi Party. He rejected the party, however, and in 1939 wrote a novel critical of a thinly disguised Hitler. In later years he publicly repudiated the bellicosity of his youth...