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...admits that The Term Paper Artist is provocative, but asks, "What's the point of writing if you don't provoke people?" Leavitt, 35, has won considerable renown and notoriety doing just that. His first collection of stories, Family Dancing (1984), and first novel, The Lost Language of Cranes (1987), were praised for their artful and frank treatment of gay characters and themes. But his ascending career hit a wall with the appearance of While England Sleeps (1993). Leavitt's novel included embroidered scenes from British poet Stephen Spender's 1951 memoir of the Spanish Civil War, World Within World...
James Ellroy has told this story from his own childhood before, mainly to journalists attracted to his growing renown as a writer of dark, scarifyingly violent crime novels (The Black Dahlia, L.A. Confidential). The anecdote enhanced his reputation, setting him off from his competitors. How many other toilers in the thriller trade could claim a mother murdered in a crime still unsolved? But My Dark Places (Knopf; 355 pages; $25) rehearses this unhappy history with a lot more than instant publicity in mind. Part memoir, part detective story, part meditation on the kind of men who kill and the women...
...perfect place/ Of world renown/ Reserve a space/ In a Disney Town...
...written several inventive novels that brought him little renown and less income. In 1949 he was an indigent author (by now writing in French), when, as a relief from the bondage of fiction, he wrote a play...
...show the world Republicans aren't scary Their speakers were like Susan Molinari, Who's ethnic as a garlic blintz con queso. And she's pro-choice, though she forgot to say so. Two blacks were at the mike, to great renown-- Which left not many blacks still sitting down. The Contract? They forgot it was their axis; They're just nice folks who want to cut your taxes. A scene inclusive as an ad for Gap, It could have caused a moderate to clap. She'd call her best friend on the phone and tell her, "They're nominating...