Word: novelization
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Krieger also moderated an informal debate between New Urbanism pioneer Andres Duany and noted Dutch architect Koolhaas, founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam, and author of Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large, a book he describes as an "architectural novel...
...Milken, Duran Duran, Odeon, Christie Brinkley. Partying all night through downtown Manhattan's glam disco scene. Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll--and a guy who discovers that he really loved his mother too. If you can get past the notion that Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney's 1984 novel about a Manhattan yuppie on a downward spiral, is a time capsule whose time has passed, it's actually not a bad idea for a musical...
...best, but Bright Lights Big City (no comma now) has a more engaging mix of substance and flash than any other musical so far this dismal season. Goodman's adaptation, quite faithful to the novel, follows Jamie (nameless in the book though called Jamie in the 1988 movie starring Michael J. Fox) from his dreary job as a fact checker for a snooty, New Yorker-style magazine through his debauched, drug-addled all-nighters on the New York club circuit. It fleshes out, via flashbacks, his fashion-model ex-wife, with whom he's still obsessed, and his mother, whose...
DIED. ANDRE DUBUS, 62, short-story craftsman; of a heart attack; in Haverhill, Mass. Dubus published his first novel in 1967. In 1986 he was struck by a car, leaving him wheelchair-bound. He subsequently produced some of his finest stories, notably in the 1996 book Dancing After Hours...
Spanidou's language is spare, allowing for some sudden moments to simple truth and beauty. This simplicity lends a dreamlike sense to the novel. Spanidou has succeeded in creating the atmosphere of a fairy tale and has created an ominous feeling of fear. It is this atmosphere, in combination with the strength of the characters, that carries the book. The author's discussion of the nature of fear is not as original or exciting as she obviously hopes it to be, but she has managed to draw a picture that will make a lasting impression on the senses and emotions...