Word: novelizations
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Agents of Innocence, a first novel by Washington Post Associate Editor David Ignatius, demonstrates an admirable flair for transcribing screaming headlines into plausible matters of fiction. Before he joined the Post in 1986, Ignatius, 37, spent three years during the early 1980s as Middle East correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. Among the many events he witnessed was the continuing demolition of civilized life in Lebanon by indigenous sects and fractious neighbors. Having reported parts of this complex and in many ways preposterous story, Ignatius has now set about lending these experiences the coherence of make-believe...
Daniel Vilmure '87 is the author of Life in the Land of the Living, a novel published this month by Aflred A. Knopf. This article first appeared in The Crimson last Halloween...
...first and last 25 pages of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee. Because it's not every novel that has its young heroine dressed like a ham for a Halloween pageant, because Lee creates the archetypical American neighborhood and has the good grace to let you explore it, kid-like, by the light of midnight streetlamps, and because Boo Radley, with his taste for live squirrels and last-minute heroics, is the embodiment of Halloween itself--a big, lurking Boogie Man, with a heart of gold...
...former Lowell resident said he is pursuing several possibilities for his first novel, including selling the movie rights...
Meanwhile, however, Vilmure continues writing full-time from his Tampa home. "I'm trying to write a third novel, and I'm determined to sit down and crank...