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...couldn’t deviate from a specific writing style,” he said of his experience writing papers in Government class. “If you tried to come up with anything novel, it was rejected...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fewer Students Opting for Gov | 2/4/2008 | See Source »

...across the story in old deed books while doing graduate research in Mississippi. To Alford's chagrin, the book was largely panned by local academics, and its story remained in relative obscurity. Though it has remained in print since its release, Alford admits that the dramatization of Haley's novel had burned many out on the subject. "No sour grapes," Alford told TIME, acknowledging that Roots absorbed much of the day's attention on black history subjects. "But the seeds had been sown for that year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A 'Lost' African Prince Found | 2/1/2008 | See Source »

...stuff in Mississippi. The timing could not be worse. I would not write about those guys because I know all of them and I would never go there. Honestly, truth is far stranger than fiction. Nobody would have believed The Innocent Man if I had written it as a novel. And if I wrote the story that I think is unfolding down there as a novel, people wouldn't believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for John Grisham | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

cell-phone novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Briefing | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

Definition sel-fohn nov-uhl n. A novel written using the characters on a cell-phone keypad. A mostly Japanese phenomenon, cell-phone novels are primarily composed of brief, text-message-like sentences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Briefing | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

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