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...seventh book in the series offers its share of insights and delights. John Barth claims that he became a writer by "passionate default." Edna O'Brien espouses chastity "except when one can no longer resist the temptation." Philip Roth, asked for the umpteenth time to compare himself to his "vividly transforming heroes," replies, "I am like somebody who is trying vividly to transform himself out of himself and into his vividly transforming heroes. I am very much like somebody who spends all day writing." Occasionally the interviewer gets the last word. When Malcolm Cowley attributes the phrase "a lost generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Good Talk Writers At Work | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...Cassie T. Furgurson, John Edward Gallagher, Nancy R. Gibbs, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Christine Gorman, Rodman Griffin, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Carol A. Johmann, Sinting Lai, JoAnn Lum, Katherine Mihok, Emily Mitchell, Lawrence Mondi, Christine Morgan, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Jeannie Park, Michael Quinn, Barry Rehfeld, Theodore P. Roth, Andrea Sachs, David E. Thigpen, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel, Leslie Whitaker, Linda Williams, Linda Young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead November 24, 1986 Vol. 128 No. 21 | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

...approaching Halloween night and we gathered that he and his friends wanted to have in their possession a 150-pound pumpkin," speculated Alan Roth, director of security and safety services...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: class cuts | 11/1/1986 | See Source »

...caused any kind of major controversies on the campus," Roth commented...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: class cuts | 11/1/1986 | See Source »

...hold accountable?" Roth asked, adding that if local governments had more power to tax and spend, the voter would have more control and legislators would be more responsible to their constituents' needs. Roth has sponsored a bill that would create a commission to investigate what ways government could be restructured better to serve the public...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: It Takes Two to Tango | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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