Word: prose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole book is a lively, sometimes frantic dance designed to ward off the devils of boredom and stodginess. The more serious Hills gets about his subjects, the more obsessively breezy his prose becomes, the sentences galloping blindly onward, the italics scattered like birdshot...
Campaigning for one's own prose requires the stamina of a yak, the organizational ability of an ant colony and the indiscriminate digestion of a sewage trunk line. Says Barbara Howar, recalling her "airplane luggage carnival" to hype her first book Laughing All the Way (1974): "I grew to hate lamb chops, but it was the only thing you could count on the hotel not ruining." Between stops for Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape, Author Susan Brownmiller remembers looking at her publisher's schedule and reading "Eat sandwich now!" They were right. It was the only...
Roberts said the April issue will include prose, poetry, photography and artwork, but he said future issues may focus on specific themes such as black women...
White Car. The dry prose of the court opinion could not reflect the long, emotional ordeal that began for Hurricane on a June night in 1966. Two black gunmen had stepped into a bar in Paterson, N.J., and almost immediately opened fire with a 12-gauge shotgun and .32-cal. pistol, killing the bartender and two of three customers. Told that the killers had fled in a white car, police briefly stopped a white Dodge but let the occupants go when they recognized Carter, then a nationally ranked middleweight boxer who lived in Paterson. Later that night the Dodge...
Martin does not stop there: using tape recordings (now a standard procedure at exorcisms) and entries from the diaries of participants, he reconstructs the five exorcisms. The material varies: at times he evokes nothing more than memories of William P. Blatty's lurid prose or of bad National Enquirer exposes; alternately, without warning, Martin produces rather alarming dialogues between exorcist and spirit that touch at the heart of modern evil. This is the strength of Hostage to the Devil; it offers an insight into the evil not only of Buchenwald and My Lai but also into the more personal evil...