Word: writer
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Occasionally, heartening evidence surfaces that some people still care about serious fiction after all. Here is a long, challenging novel by a highly praised writer, and it has spurred a frenzy of international attention. Headlines have bristled. Voices have been raised, although not exactly in unanimous praise. The book has been banned in a number of countries with substantial Muslim populations; its appearance in the West has been greeted with isolated public protests and telephoned bomb threats...
...operating with a completely free hand. George Bush says he "loves the foreign policy aspects" of his job, and Bush, obviously, is the boss. But the two men have a unique relationship. "They are as close to being equals as any President and a subordinate have ever been," says writer Victor Gold, who has been close to both of them for two decades. Baker may not be Deputy President or Prime Minister, but at the very least, he is first among equals...
...always want to be a writer...
...decided at five or six that I wanted to be a writer. My father was an agronomist and the editor of a magazine called Southern Planter, in Richmond. I always thought of him as a writer. And I wanted to write...
Mebbe not. Yet Lonesome Dove rides rings around the overstuffed soap operas that usually pass for "epics" along Broadcast Row. Larry McMurtry's fat novel has been brought to TV -- by writer Bill Wittliff and director Simon Wincer -- with sweep, intelligence and sheer storytelling drive. Firmly anchoring the film is Robert Duvall's moving performance as the wry, philosophical ex-lawman Augustus McCrae. Tommy Lee Jones provides stern counterpoint as McCrae's partner, Woodrow F. Call. Dozens of finely etched characters surround them: a roguish ex-Ranger turned gambler (Robert Urich); a prostitute looking for escape (Diane Lane); a wimpy...