Word: readerly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Smith has reason to fear. Her new novel follows such a bell ringer, a haunting and resonant story of Appalachia called Oral History (1983). Family Linen uses the same narrative technique: members of a troubled clan are revealed directly to the reader, one by one, in contrasting chapters...
...idea of a character becomes imprisoned in the body of the incarnator, and even the creator cannot liberate the prisoner. The character has acquired features and hair and costume. But something valuable, the subjective suggestiveness that hangs around the edges of words and comes alive only in the reader's imagination, may have died of specificity. Abruptly, the embodied character takes on the limitations of individual flesh...
...head with the greener troops of the Register, the Times stories are usually better written and more analytical. Yet the Times cannot match the Register's coverage of virtually everything in Orange County that moves, talks or flashes bright colors. Anderson, a fiend for market studies, responded to reader surveys this fall by expanding the business pages and adding entertainment and fashion sections. "The Los Angeles Times has excellent foreign and national coverage, but its weakness is in local coverage," says Anderson. Observes Threshie: "We've identified the Register as the Orange County paper, and people have responded to that...
...edition, has reacted to the challenge partly by wooing away some of her competitor's brightest stars with fatter paychecks. (Register salaries average $575 a week, compared with the Times's $775.) Even Zacchino acknowledges, however, that the Register's look is an advantage difficult to overcome. "If a reader sees the same stories on the front of the Times and the Register, he will probably buy the Register for the color," says Zacchino. The Register enjoys another advantage: its home-delivery price is $5.25 a week, while the Times costs...
...Sunday issues could crush a Chihuahua. For human beings who crave a daily fix of newsprint, however, the competition between the Register and the Times is good news indeed. "I feel really lucky to be here," says Trotter. "It's a damn fine place to be a newspaper reader." --By James Kelly. Reported by Dan Goodgame/Los Angeles