Word: doldrums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some such doldrum, adrift in giddiness or despair, Chabon decided to write about a novelist who can't get his next novel written. Sure enough, Wonder Boys (Villard; 368 pages; $23) is, rather too cutely, not just the title of Chabon's book, but of the novel his hero Grady Tripp can't bring himself to finish. Tripp's well-reviewed early books are receding into the distant past, and he feels fraudulent when his writing students admire them. He pretends optimism to his editor, but the truth is that his half-written book is an unreadable mass of unstrung...
...issue never received a full hashing-out on the editorial pages of campus publications, primarily because representatives of at least four Asian student groups disagreed with the AAA leaders. Besides Cheng and Hwang leveled the insensitivity charge during exam period, a political doldrum...