Word: write
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...interest in lesbian and gay genre fiction, and completed a Ph.D. on gay and lesbian historical fiction. Her associated research into London's colorful demimonde of music halls and vaudeville led directly to her first novel, Tipping the Velvet (1998), a picaresque romp - and an unabashedly lesbian love story. "Writing it was a breeze," she recalls with a grin. "I wrote it in about 18 months, right after I finished my Ph.D." Her second novel, Affinity, followed in 1999, delving into the 19th century worlds of spiritualism and women's prisons, and then Fingersmith, the fiendishly clever appropriation of Wilkie...
...embarked on a year of travel, divided neatly into thirds like a tub of Neapolitan ice cream. She would visit Italy to explore pleasure, India to study devotion and Indonesia to look into whatever people do in Indonesia ("balance" is her word for it). Then she would write an engaging, intelligent and highly entertaining memoir about it called Eat Pray Love (Viking; 352 pages...
...human-chomping fish sold 20 million copies, and the 1975 film adaptation epitomized the summer movie experience. Fascinated by oceans throughout his life, the Harvard-educated grandson of humorist Robert Benchley in later years became an outspoken protector of sharks. "Knowing what I know now, I could never write that book today," Benchley wrote last month. "Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges...
...novel, and she's looking to broaden her subject matter beyond China. That's good for her, but a loss for readers hungry to understand her changing homeland. Li is an invaluable resource. China's post-Tiananmen generation has produced precious few serious authors, and virtually none who can write with Li's fluency in English. It seems that exile has become a requirement for China's most honest writers?the country's only Nobel prizewinner, Gao Xingjian, lives in France?but Li's exile may prove short-lived. In 2004 Li applied for permanent residency...
...doctors in Minnesota published a modest paper in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine. The authors point out that even in a weak pandemic there would be far fewer mechanical ventilators than the number of desperately ill flu patients who would need them to survive. "In this situation," they write, "triage of resources would be needed to offer 'the greatest good for the greatest number.'" That means that the very sick or the very old would probably be denied ventilator support?even removed from the machines?in favor of those more likely to survive. The assumption that most people...