Word: novelization
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...Things We Lost in the Fire is in some ways more novel, but in ways that undermine our interest. It seems that Brian, the murdered husband (David Duchovny), has a childhood friend, Jerry (Benicio Del Toro) that is everything he is not - a drug addict who has fallen to the most degrading level. Brian has stood by him through the years, doing what he can to keep him alive. His widow, Audrey (Halle Berry), invites Jerry to the funeral and then, unaccountably, invites him into her and her children's lives. She gives him a spare room and does...
...fell for the actress when she, too, was an unknown—had spent the rest of his life loving her, chasing her, trying to tame her after she’d left him, his memoir would have read like Mario Vargas Llosa’s new novel, “The Bad Girl.” While Marilyn is probably the original Bad Girl, the novel’s titular bad girl is no less a seductress, adventure-seeker, or opportunist than the actress was thought to be, although hers is a less intriguing and iconic story. Otilita?...
...bottom shelf are now on the front table in Barnes and Noble,” he said proudly. Russell said that short fiction is the most natural form of literature to her and described her relationship with stories as being very unlike the marriage of writing a novel. “Stories are like little flings. No matter how bad things go, you get out of there pretty quickly,” she said. The authors also discussed the reasons behind the increasing trivialization of short fiction, both by readers who don’t bother to look on that...
Fourteen years old, and America's biggest kids' superstar already has enough personas to fill a postmodern novel. But to Cyrus, reached by phone between tour preparation and an appearance on Ellen, the distinction is not that complicated. "What my fans get, which parents have a harder time grasping, is they know who's underneath Hannah Montana," she says. "They like the girl who's underneath...
...chaste crusaders. Granted, she has long served as the anathema of the American right, but in substance she’s just as pro-choice, just as tough on guns, and perhaps less Orwellian a presence than Giuliani. Both of these frontrunners have shrunk away from adopting any novel idea in favor of the senseless and discouraging groupthink we euphemize as “electability,” and both have profited mightily. America shall...