Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PUBLISHER: POCKET BOOKS; 299 PAGES...
...McCarthy] was known around Appleton as a practical joker, a guy who'd do anything for a laugh. Oddly, his favorite prank involved pouring water down the pants of male companions. He loved to take a running hose, put it in someone's pocket, and wait for the frenzied reaction...
...POCKET T SHIRT...
HERE IS THE UNLIKELIEST GOOD NOVEL of the year. The wambling hero of Walter Kirn's SHE NEEDED ME (Pocket Books; $20) is a pale young fellow named Weaver % Walquist, who, becalmed and lacking direction, joins the antiabortion protest squad of an evangelical church in St. Paul, Minnesota. He collides with a pregnant young woman named Kim during a protest at an abortion clinic, and at first is attracted to the idea of saving her fetus and her soul. Then, faintly -- a puff of wind ruffles the calm -- he is attracted to her. Kirn, author of a 1990 story collection...
...life friends and family into characters. In the case of writers like kerouac, novels are memoirs with the names changed. I have romantic images of the "research" that drives fine writing--images of the writer ambling down a narrow city street with a well-worn notebook in his back pocket. But I've upset friends before by referring to them in print. Ironically, to be honest about my life in print requires a certain callousness about the people I am closest...