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Roller coaster or fun house, the first two books in the new series, Don't Forget Me! and Locker 13, read like slightly more sophisticated installments of Goosebumps. Stine's prose is, as usual, simple, his dialogue attuned to the speech of the young ("awesome," "totally lost it," "Duh"). The plots of both involve Stine's trademark: teenagers being frightened witless in a context assuring readers that nothing truly dangerous will occur. As he admits, "There's more teasing than horror in my books...
...name, muskellunge, derives from Ojibway or perhaps Cree terms meaning "great deformed ugly fish." That's more insulting than it needs to be. The muskie is quite handsome, in its mysterious, prehistoric way. But Johnson was working in the red-in-tooth-and-claw style of hunting-and-fishing prose. The muskie, he wrote, "has the sinister appearance of a stalking submarine." He went on: "There is no other fish like the muskie. It is diabolical in its cunning, maniacal in its rage, unpredictable in its habits. It is the most awesome of all freshwater fish, a creature that captures...
DIED. WILLIAM MAXWELL, 91, author and New Yorker fixture who polished the prose of Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike and J.D. Salinger, among other authors; in Manhattan. A 40-year veteran of the magazine, Maxwell wrote six novels as well as dozens of short stories, essays and reviews. Renowned for his tact and insight, he edited such writers as Eudora Welty and John O'Hara, and he once took a train to tell John Cheever that one of his stories had been rejected...
...professor and I took a composition course with him. His assignment each day was a one-page piece of any sort and I sent him every day a prose piece," Kunitz said. "He wrote on one of them you sound like a poet, why don't you write poetry...
...discuss personalities. How is Bryant Gumbel different from, oh, John Rocker? Both are performers in the public eye who have been guilty of invective. Rocker happens to have a more vivid prose style than Gumbel, and, shall we say, a more encompassing sociological vision. But Gumbel, dismissing Knight as a "f---ing idiot" on grounds of Knight's religious convictions, works in the same ball park...