Word: novelizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Staff Writer Guy D. Garcia, who wrote the story, the cover image could not have been more appropriate. "Olmos is a symbol of Hispanic Americans' newfound self-assurance," says Garcia, an East Los Angeles native and author of a novel set in the barrio (Skin Deep, to be published this fall by Farrar, Straus & Giroux). "Because the muralists are part of the Hispanic cultural movement, the medium really is part of the message...
...Jewish irony. One after another, America draws them down the channels of its awareness and puts them into play in new settings. They collide and cross- pollinate and mix it up, nowhere more so than in the arts and popular culture. Sparks fly at the meeting points. The Jewish novel works variations on the keynotes of Puritan gloom. The western is reseen through John Ford's Irish eyes. Sinatra meets Duke Ellington. Every offering is admitted and set dancing with new partners. It may be better to give, but it's a lot more fun to receive...
...Curfew's plot skips around, it seems intentional. By making events take on an almost haphazard quality, Donoso shows that to live under a military dictatorship is to learn that death, imprisonment and torture are unregulated and arbitrary things. Though the action is somewhat difficult to follow, the novel itself is intriguing, and one can only hope that Donoso's words will inspire a new generation of Chileans to fight for the freedom and love they deserve...
...Milan Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, he remarks at one point in the seemingly disjointed work, that it is indeed a novel, for when it is not about the work's main character, it is for her. This same sentiment seems to run through Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities Robert Coles' latest published work, Harvard Diary. For when it is not about his father, one has the sense, this collection of essays...
...when Coles sticks to himself, struggles on his own to come to terms with a particular novel, or even a particular conversation with someone, he is a joy to encounter. Despite the up-front Chrisitianity of this volume, one begins to hear a more ecumenical spiritualism at the heart of his writing, as he consistently makes the argument that in this world we have too often closed our eyes to or explained away the mysteries of the next...