Word: novelization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...both its writer and D.A. Richard DiBenedetto, who spent 16 years tracking down his man. Lopez's dozen conversations with DiBenedetto yield a mesmerizing story that takes you inside the mind of the hunter and the hunted. The author of The Sunday Macaroni Club, a fiercely funny crime novel that features a similarly crusading attorney, Lopez pursued his own quest. It took him to Einhorn's lawyers in Paris, the murderer's former hideout in Champagne-Mouton, and Einhorn himself. "I wanted to gauge by his eyes whether the murder had registered," says Lopez. "As far as I could...
...have to grant a certain credit to novelist Jane Smiley for the unapologetic boldness with which she appropriated the story of King Lear for her Pulitzer prize-winning novel, A Thousand Acres, resettling his mythical Britannic majesty and his fractious daughters on a modern Iowa farm. You also have to admire the nerve with which she attached pop-psych subtexts to her rearrangement, the daring with which she turned the whole works into a feminist tract...
...sober realism of her style that redeemed the novel, its weight and conviction that prevented readers from noticing (or caring) that by replacing noble enigmas with banal behaviorism, Smiley had downsized tragedy to melodrama. The movie version--bereft of diverting literary stratagems, relentlessly focused on what-next narrative--takes it another step down--to soap opera...
Thomas Wyatt couldn't agree more. Wyatt, 73, a retired Army colonel who lives in Clinton, Miss., has been writing a novel, counseling rape victims and studying to become a deacon in the Episcopal Church. That's when he isn't cooking and cleaning house or taking care of his 12-year-old daughter Nicole while his second wife teaches nursing at a nearby medical school. "I always had things that had to be done, and I just kept doing them," says Wyatt, whose career includes decorated service in World War II, Korea and Southeast Asia, plus a doctorate...
...rightly feel that youth--like the Star Wars Force--is still with them? "In the long run," economist John Maynard Keynes once wrote, "we are all dead." But that long run is growing longer all the time. Thomas Wyatt offers a better motto for Americans as he writes his novel and raises his daughter in Mississippi. "I don't believe in aging," Wyatt says. "I just think there are multitudes of people who don't stop." Welcome aboard...