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Bellows loved hot stories written in acrobatic prose. Only under Bellows could the Trib's Sunday supplement, New York, have turned into a showcase for the radical experiment now called the New Journalism. Bellows' Trib became the hottest newspaper in America...
...orders for such a brief collection. Yet this preponderance of bizarre images and places is compounded by Nilsson’s decision to emphasize her most unusual and least meaningful through the use of italics. Italicization in poetry is a hokey maneuver at the best of times; unlike in prose, it is susceptible to use, or rather misuse, as a means not to emphasize meaning but rather to draw attention to a phrase that the poet considers exceptional. Nilsson has a bad case of this affliction. In the closing poem, “Cleaning the Icons...
...villains of Lisey's Story, Stephen King's 2006 book about a famous novelist's widow, are dubbed Incunks - crazed academics and collectors who want nothing more than to obtain a dead writer's every last piece of prose and memorabilia - their incunabula. A more learned version of Misery's Annie Wilkes ("I'm your number one fan"), the Incunks speak in part to a writer's fear of having their unfinished, unpolished work stripped from their cold, dead hands (metaphorically, of course) and thrust out into the world...
...elements are joined by black tape—is a clock and picture frames created by Martin. The clock’s face is marked by linear strokes radiating outwards from the center. The rectangular picture frame hangs freely in the middle of the room. A piece of prose excerpted from a text about the events of September 11, 2001 creates the illusion of three-dimensionality with the prismatic shape the words take. At a cursory glance, the piece is striking primarily in its aesthetic appeal; however, the content’s nature lends it a haunting and jarring quality.The...
...Sudanese writer Tayeb Salih, who passed away in London on Feb. 18 at 80. I had been writing for some time by then, but Salih's perceptive assessment of the relationship between East and West, his complex weaving of personal and political lives, and the beauty of his prose redefined fiction...