Word: novelization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Elmore Leonard, king of the crime novel and author of Get Shorty and Out of Sight, has taken a break from his fast-paced, book-a-year writing schedule to do a little touring. But he's not following the typical writer's schedule of interviews, coffee-shop readings and book-signing sessions. No, Leonard's really on tour this winter, traveling and performing with a band from Greenfield, Mass., called the Stone Coyotes. Boston's Lansdowne Street Music Hall hosted the bizarre book-reading/band performance on Friday, February 19. Two days earlier Leonard and his back-up graced...
This seemingly unusual arrangement is is quite typical for Leonard, who has always focused on extensive live research. In his latest novel Be Cool, sequel to Get Shorty, the infamous Chili Palmer gives up the movies in favor of a music industry career. Leonard needed lyrics and inspiration for his fictional band, so research this time meant schmoozing with singers. He and his assistant met with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Aerosmith, among others, but Leonard finally found his ideal band by accident. Hanging out at a lounge in L.A., Leonard experienced a Stone Coyotes performance and knew right...
Dame Iris Murdoch's like will not be seen again. A beautiful woman with a brilliant mind, a divine innocent, philosopher and Fellow of St. Anne's College, Oxford, winner of the 1978 Booker Prize for her novel The Sea, the Sea, living closely and in famous squalor with her husband, the eminent critic John Bayley, she was unmoved by the claims of publishers and fans upon her privacy and person. To the impudent question in a bookstore's Visitor's Book "What are you famous for?" she wrote, "For nothing. I am just famous." And she would have believed...
...there is another theme to Powell's work, it is an unfailing fascination with characters who live on gender's edges. Apart from the sexual rebels she dressed in her two recent films and in Orlando (based on the Virginia Woolf novel about a heroine who switches sexes back and forth), Powell also designed costumes for Neil Jordan's The Crying Game. "I'm attracted to projects that involve taking risks of some kind," Powell says, "and ones that might upset some people...
...novel is an adventure story first; it wears its lofty paradoxes lightly. Bounding over the waves and through the woods, Covington bears an almost feudal loyalty to the brilliant master he calls "the gent." But while Darwin may have the upper hand socially and intellectually, Covington is the superior psychologist, gifted with a rustic common sense that allows him to hold his own with the great man and slyly enrich himself under Darwin's nose by selling rare animals to London collectors. Like the fantastic tortoises they encounter in the Galapagos, servant and master are perfectly adapted to their respective...