Word: fictions
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...Canadian is to emerge from the ghetto twice," he once wrote. His scathing social commentary and masterful comic novels derived from that vantage point. He became a Canadian Mencken, caustically attacking separatists and French language supremacists. But he could also go to Waugh, matching in his best fiction?from The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) to Barney's Version (1997)?the work of contemporaries Philip Roth and Saul Bellow. The Scotch drinking, Schimmelpenninck cigar-smoking Mordecai was never a follower of stylish food fads. Dine with him in a deli and order a pastrami lean, and Mordecai would tell...
OXFORD, ENGLAND—Boe knows 18-wheelers. Boe knows organic vegetables. And by the end of the summer, Boe will know Twelfth Night, short fiction and the intricacies of international...
...seems incongruously tame: she’s in the midst of her sophomore year at Smith College. Unlike those of us for whom college was the unquestionable post-high school destination, Boe has diverted from the established path a hundred times in life. Coming to Oxford to study Shakespeare, fiction writing and international law is another route she might never have expected to take...
...titled, Committee to Boycott Pearl Harbor. One contributor gripes: "They'll probably make a movie called Hiroshima next, in which heroic American soldiers bomb those evil Japanese and save the world." Another writes: "In Armageddon, you could excuse the message that America is number one because it's science fiction. But Pearl Harbor looks to be pure propaganda...
...these parallels between the invented and the real, The Ghost Writer conveys a formal design and aesthetic shapeliness that are antithetical to the factual imperatives of autobiographical writing. Roth has tirelessly insisted on the distinction between the raw material of life and the transforming power of fiction, and his energy shows no signs of flagging. His office is a study on his Connecticut property about 60 yds. from his house: "I work at my job the way most human beings work at jobs; I start mornings and quit evenings." Bad reviews no longer bother him: "I'm sometimes frustrated...