We have novelists and intellectuals, but few novelist-intellectuals or intellectual-novelists.
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Hollinghurst is routinely praised not simply as one of the best living English novelists but as one of the best living novelists working in English.
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My husband pointed out to me years ago that there's something strange about novelists' reviewing other novelists' books — we all have too much dog in the fight.
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But novelists can do things that other writers can't—and Morgan can do things that other novelists can't, starting with creating Reuben Bedford Walker III, the bad conscience of her new book.
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Novelists might dream of playing their protagonists in the movies.
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He has two intellectual assets that all great novelists need.
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Novelists including Ian McEwan and Margaret Atwood have done so.
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And similarly novelists with politics, artists with the community organizers.
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It's a question that has obsessed British novelists for decades.
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Turkey's imprisoned politicians, novelists and journalists may not believe him.
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Of course, most debut novelists don't find themselves greeted by seven-figure advances and photo shoots in Vogue, and many people who write beautiful first novels never get to be "debut novelists" at all.
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And there's a reason that filmmakers and novelists adore their stories.
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But this doesn't matter — it doesn't matter even for historical novelists.
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Authorities also hope to nurture a growing coterie of local novelists.
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Its effects are expressed more accurately by novelists than by statisticians.
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"I'm interested in how novelists can tell history again," he said.
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Like many of us, she wanted different pleasures from different novelists.
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English novelists could save civilization from the so-called barbarians. The
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Tabloids covered the group incessantly; pulp novelists made hooded Klansmen central
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He had met with many potential partners, from novelists to playwrights.
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Any underappreciated novelists from Mexico you wish were better known globally?
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Most 19th-century novelists didn't try to hide their authorial presence.
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To date, eight novelists have signed on to reinterpret eight plays.
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Unreliability is a fascinating and tricky conceit for novelists and filmmakers.
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Who are your favorite writers – novelists, nonfiction, journalists, poets – working today?
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He gossiped about famous dead novelists like they were old acquaintances.
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Which writers — novelists, playwrights, critics, journalists, poets — do you admire most?
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Who are your favorite writers — novelists, essayists, journalists, poets — working today?
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Roth tests our patience in a way few novelists would dare.
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In the world of debut novelists, there are few Elizabeth Bennets.
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Books of The Times What do Indians want from their novelists?
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I don't like it when novelists try to teach or preach.
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The whole point is that novelists do not have job security, right?
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Novelists and filmmakers always seem interested in the slippery nature of memory.
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Writing children's literature has always appealed to a subset of serious novelists.
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The result is a terrific book from one of our greatest novelists.
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Even the most private and eccentric novelists—Thomas Bernhard, Samuel Beckett, or
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TV right now is in a new golden age for fantasy novelists.
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Think about the novelists Josephine Humphreys and George Singleton in South Carolina.
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Censors are targeting self-help gurus, novelists, sportswriters and other independent writers.
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Which writers — novelists, essayists, memoirists, poets — working today do you admire most?
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So one of our best writers talked to novelists about their approach.
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Tudor or not Tudor, that is forever the question for historical novelists.
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Really good executives, entrepreneurs, investors, and novelists — they will all reap rewards.
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This is why novelists like Khalifa are so critical in these times.
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Critical cred: Dunn was shortlisted for Granta magazine's Best of Young American Novelists.
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Dan Brown and Margaret Atwood are now part of its stable of novelists.
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Which writers — novelists, playwrights, critics, journalists, poets — working today do you admire most?
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Márquez, José Donoso, and Mario Vargas Llosa—the cutting-edge novelists at the
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Still, it remains unusual for contemporary novelists to write text for picture books.
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"When I talk to novelists, we tend to talk about movies," he said.
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Novelists find it hard to avoid writing about real teams, people and situations.
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WHEN NOVELISTS talk about what they're working on, they rarely mention subject matter.
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Which writers — novelists, playwrights, critics, journalists, poets – working today do you admire most?
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She has material at her fingertips that many novelists can only dream about.
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We wondered what novelists might make of some of them — so we asked.
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Which writers – novelists, playwrights, critics, journalists, poets – working today do you admire most?
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No wonder novelists and moviemakers always blow up the town in Act Three.
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Profile ISESAKI, Japan — Hideo Yokoyama is one of Japan's most popular crime novelists.
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But centuries earlier, novelists had imagined surveillance as a cornerstone of utopian societies.
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Novelists, whose daily craft involves making things up, know this all too well.
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There were also happy surprises, including a high number of debut novelists (the Man Booker Shortlist included three first-time novelists, and on the National Book Award's longlist for fiction, three of the 10 authors were also publishing their debuts).
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Contemporary novelists are refocusing the ghost story, revelling in its potential for psychological drama.
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She is widely considered to be one of the most important living American novelists.
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There are likely plenty of novelists whose literary aspirations don't involve elaborate world-building.
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A new generation of Arab novelists elevates Jews from bit-players to centre-stage.
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Former reporters have often become renowned novelists — think of Ernest Hemingway or Stephen Crane.
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Hyped debut novelists are the writers who most resemble actual celebrities — actresses or singers.
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In 2013 Granta magazine put him on its Best of Young British Novelists list.
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Questions like these drive novelists, not because we have answers, but because we don't.
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Whom do you consider the best writers (novelists, essayists, biographers, journalists, poets) working today?
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Whom do you consider the best writers — novelists, essayists, critics, memoirists, poets — working today?
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These new spots for novelists on late-night television have offered publishers some relief.
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It made us wonder: What novelists were popular 25, 50 and 75 years ago?
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Who, besides Zane Grey and Louis L'Amour and a forgotten brotherhood of pulp novelists?
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There are likely plenty of novelists whose literary aspirations don't involve elaborate world-building.
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Several novelists have attempted continuations (there is even a detective version by Reginald Hill).
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The silent spaces in baseball used to be filled in by novelists and filmmakers.
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She's inspiring Italy's female novelists and shaking up the country's male-dominated literary establishment.
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Novelists have always known, maybe because their lives are so bound up in books.
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They are subscribing to podcasters, comedians, zany YouTube stars, novelists and comic book artists.
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Which writers — novelists, playwrights, critics, philosophers, journalists, poets — working today do you admire most?
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Since 2000, the daughters of novelists Bernard Malamud and William Styron, as well as Saul
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Who are the best writers — novelists, essayists, biographers, journalists, poets — working today, in your opinion?
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Count Tolstoi is not the greatest of Russian novelists, nor is this his best work.
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He already passed away, but he was one of the greatest 20th century American novelists.
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There are probably a dozen novelists whose new books, every one, I'm predisposed to read.
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A handful of novelists have written fictional critiques of Trump, mostly with disappointing commercial results.
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I was one of only a few novelists in a tent filled with nonfiction authors.
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Audiences wanted to punish gay men; they disapproved, and wanted novelists to register that disapproval.
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He was mystified, he said, by the absence of western novelists in the American canon.
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Yet it informs every one of her stories — just as it does for debut novelists.
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Wit is a specialized form of verbal intelligence that all novelists possess to some degree.
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A Knopf vice president, Ms. Jones edited some of America's best novelists and nonfiction writers.
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"Many people — the press, novelists — have been willing to report from their perspectives," she said.
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Which playwrights and other writers — novelists, critics, journalists, poets — working today do you admire most?
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Lunches with the novelists Zadie Smith, Barbara Kingsolver, Junot Díaz, Dave Eggers and Colson Whitehead.
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Indian novelists and poets have gained global name recognition around the world, even in China.
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Young adult novelists Elizabeth Acevedo and Tracey Baptiste will be among the first visiting writers.
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It's rare for novelists to wield this much influence over screen adaptations of their work.
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She's one of the best (and for some, the best — period) of our classic novelists.
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Fiction writers and graphic novelists can reinvent and reimagine using humour, words, and visual puns.
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Novelists and poets on the academy argued that most of his dozen books are dry treatises.
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Poets, novelists, philosophers and revolutionaries all beat a path to their door in Cheyne Row, Chelsea.
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I know them as novelists and essayists, and they're a huge part of who I am.
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He was particularly inspired by novelists who shared his revulsion for wealth and championed social outcasts.
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Of course, the figure of the terrorist has long been irresistible to novelists — and dangerously so.
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Novelists are liars, and Le Guin was one of the most honest liars who ever lived.
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And like most TV writers, Rhodes clearly prefers to imagine himself in the company of novelists.
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An essay, "Novelists' Stock Phrases," deplored the use of repetitious clichés in place of original ideas.
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She's under contract for two books from Random House, more job security than most novelists enjoy.
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Literary writers without proven sales records will have difficulty getting published, as will young, debut novelists.
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Even the best novelists are rarely congratulated on the quality of their observations about contemporary life.
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My wife, Faye Kellerman, or either of our children who are published novelists — Jesse and Aliza.
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Unlike professional athletes, actors (Gene Hackman) and some novelists (Philip Roth), visual artists don't usually retire.
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Tragically, the novelists were right that much of the death toll was brought about by hubris.
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Sylvia Plath is regarded as one of the greatest poets and novelists of the 20th century.
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Woolf is one of the greatest novelists of the English language, and a giant among modernists.
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Neither is Michel Houellebecq, reckoned to be among the most penetrating of all contemporary European novelists.
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I'm on a Wednesday panel about novelists working in TV, but tonight is the cocktail party.
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Decades of moviemakers, novelists and playwrights have been trying to unlock the mysteries of Sam Shepard.
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Books News Conspiracies surrounding Russian meddling in American politics used to be the terrain of novelists.
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The world is full of successful novelists (and, ahem, newsletter writers) with perfectly average writing chops.
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With its harrowing stories and epic sweep, this exodus would seem a rich mine for novelists.
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He has more to say than most novelists, and about 50 more ways to say it.
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Together these novelists form a Himalayan Range of late-20th-century American fiction, intimidating and terrifying.
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Reader's Notebook American novelists have long complained about the ability of real life to outstrip fiction.
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If you're Jay-Z, you've talked to everyone: music critics, fellow musicians, novelists and even presidents.
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Today's novelists often turn to the two world wars, or even more remote eras, for their subjects.
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Renegades There was a time when the great American male novelists took delight in writing about sex.
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We asked four writers to describe the various facets of one of the greatest of American novelists.
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If Clinton, like all aspiring novelists, yearned for his book to sell, he chose the right wingman.
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The studio holds the intellectual property rights, so novelists give up any claim to characters they create.
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I admire novelists who can build a whole world and keep me in it for several books.
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Village People Small towns populated by outsize personalities mark the work of two more Down East novelists.
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It perplexes, amuses and excites him, the way language obsesses some novelists and food delights certain cooks.
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Recently, the academy has often overlooked novelists and poets in favor of writers working in unconventional forms.
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Novelists rarely retire in the formal sense, and tend not to stage news conferences when they do.
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Novelists choose the period they write about, but they can't choose the period in which they're read.
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While Charlie's teachers were novelists, composers and scientists, ours were asked to combine teaching and social work.
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Literary novelists, for one, have revealed that individual selves as well as human societies are stubbornly plural.
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Some Dos and Don'ts From Famous Writers Some best-selling novelists have written books about their craft.
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This captivating film offers a strong argument for more graphic novelists to apply their creativity to animation.
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Morrison's status as one of the great American novelists, full stop, developed late in life: When she first came up, she was considered to be one of the great black women American novelists, who was maybe not in the same league as writers who were white and male.
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And Irving Langmuir didn't really know many novelists, and he thought, 'How do you talk to a novelist?
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For a number of years, more and more French novelists have succumbed to a pair of troubling trends.
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He published novelists like James Fenimore Cooper and helped the novel become an important part of American culture.
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Greek myths, Shakespeare, the great Russian novelists, the Brontes: all have been plundered to supply plots for ballets.
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Literary novelists like Lauren Groff, Helen Oyeyemi and Eimear McBride have heaped praise on Ms. Han's hypnotic prose.
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Although OED is, in essence, a record of the written language, the tendency of novelists, songwriters, screenwriters, etc.
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He refers frequently to novelists such as Evelyn Waugh and Olivia Manning, authors of trilogies about the war.
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Flaubert, the poet among novelists, transmuted disgust with the bourgeoisie into a monastic dedication to his austere art.
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Like many novelists, Chimamanda was more skeptical of activism in her fiction than she was in her life.
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Yet Egan doesn't suffer the ailment that typically afflicts literary novelists who venture into history: She isn't nostalgic.
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The two novelists are not unique among transgender writers in their magpie approach to literary tropes and genres.
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Some of our first references are in the diaries of the novelists and social chronicles the Goncourt brothers.
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There was the luncheon with the novelists Zadie Smith, Barbara Kingsolver, Junot Díaz, Dave Eggers and Colson Whitehead.
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Several Afropolitan novelists — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Teju Cole, Dinaw Mengestu and NoViolet Bulawayo — have become near household names.
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Olivia Vinall plays Matilda, a detective who developed her skills thanks to her aunts' careers as crime novelists.
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She absorbs them from everyone she encounters, be they real estate agents or housebuilders or world-famous novelists.
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They have already enlisted prominent novelists as honorary patrons, including Atwood, Louise Erdrich, Jane Smiley and Alice Munro.
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It's "a place of childhood vacations and dreams," as one of Australia's great novelists, Thomas Keneally, recently wrote.
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The gap between Rand and her fellow novelists and writers, first evident in the 1930s, would never close.
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Everett is one of the more accomplished and prolific novelists on the scene over the last three decades.
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In recent years, copyright lawsuits against acclaimed novelists were dismissed after the courts found insufficient evidence of plagiarism.
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After all, if male novelists could return to the same subject over and over again, why couldn't she?
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And in a way, ultimately these questions might be better answered by novelists than by mere nonfiction writers.
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I was moving toward the Catholic Church, from Judaism nominally, but really from belligerent atheism; and so I turned to some novelists I hadn't read before, but who, by being novelists, had the type of mind I most trusted to help me either to make the alarming leap or stay put.
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This truth is more perceptible among some artists than others; novelists, for example, find endless ways of disguising it.
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Many writers use Scrivener, which is packed with features that are helpful for novelists, like storyboards and character templates.
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"She's like an author who wrote the novel that all the other novelists respect," Edge says of Smart-Grosvenor.
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Many writers use Scrivener, which is packed with features that are helpful for novelists, like storyboards and character templates.
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And yet, women crime novelists have utterly captured the genre, pushing its boundaries in important, exciting and creative ways.
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Some creators like comedians and visual artists might be better suited to the format than game developers or novelists.
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Mr Setiya enlists not only philosophers but poets and novelists, such as Philip Larkin, Virginia Woolf and Richard Ford.
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The architects of the Russian Revolution were writers and heavily influenced by novelists and intellectuals in the 19th century.
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The Scottish writer Ali Smith is surely the most pun-besotted of contemporary novelists, edging out even Thomas Pynchon.
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"Narratively I'd say I'm inspired by Taiwanese, or Asian American filmmakers and novelists," Han Tani told me via email.
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The Cambridge Novelists: Allegra Goodman, Gish Jen, Claire Messud, their names allied only by locale, their fiction strikingly individuated.
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Of some novelists it is said that they had only one book in them, or only one outstanding book.
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Best known for his 14-book "Night Soldiers" series, Furst was one of the first successful American spy novelists.
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Is that still an accurate view of the best American novelists of the second half of the 20th century?
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Novelists, too, have generally refrained from making this case to aggrieved parties whose lives they have plundered for inspiration.
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Yet that challenge hasn't stopped writers — musicologists, poets, novelists — from trying to articulate music's place in the human experience.
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Dominican-American novelists who write about the island, not just the immigration experience: Junot Díaz, Nelly Rosario, Angie Cruz.
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" Conversely, Coben finds that the novelists in his group are egalitarian: "Sure, there are elder statesmen and younger bucks.
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This year's crop of finalists included two American novelists, three writers from the United Kingdom and one from Canada.
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"Zennor in Darkness" (the title refers to a village in Cornwall) won the 1994 McKitterick Prize for debut novelists.
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Novelists, poets, philosophers and theologians agree: Mortality, that relentless law of universal carnage, is the sole worthy human preoccupation.
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The published mission was to provide skills training to aspiring female veteran historians, memoirists, novelists, and op-ed writers.
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Hallmark films tend to center on independent women with interesting jobs (novelists, chocolatiers) and appealing romantic prospects (princes, firemen).
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Geir" — Geir Gulliksen, one of Norway's leading novelists and Ullmann's editor of 20 years — "told me to cut it.
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This collection of stories by one of England's best novelists is both playful and serious in the manner of Laurence Sterne, the 18th-century author of "Tristram Shandy," one of the most original novelists of all time, who influenced European literature in a way comparable only to that of the later James Joyce.
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The lyrics, on the other hand, were dripping with sexual allegories even the best erotica novelists couldn't put to paper.
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A few thousand head of Angus graze wide fields of the Russian pasturelands celebrated by the country's poets and novelists.
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Sapogonia was one of the novels I read early in college that exploded my notions of what novelists can do.
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On her off hours, she's renowned as one of the most compelling and unconventional best-selling novelists of our time.
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British novelists have been especially likely to have no progeny: think of Hilary Mantel, P.G. Wodehouse and the Brontë sisters.
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The aspiring author was trying to get Howard's attention at a bar, but the editor was surrounded by other novelists.
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Tragicomedy Central: If you were compiling a list of America's funniest novelists, you might not think to include Louise Erdrich.
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This year, two novelists who had previously attended as waiters, Ingrid Rojas Contreras and R.O. Kwon, returned to Bread Loaf.
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Celebrated Egyptian novelists like Ahdaf Soueif and Mona Prince wrote firsthand nonfiction accounts of the 2011 protests in Tahrir Square.
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If some novelists observe a kosher-like separation between their autobiographies and their fictions, DeWitt seems to encourage the contamination.
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In an uncharacteristically warm and generous assessment of his friend's masterwork, he wrote: Less original novelists tenaciously follow their protagonists.
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The Booker has done an admirable job of continuing to nominate debut novelists, but midlist authors have been squeezed out.
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One of the great American novelists reviews one of the great American songwriters and entertainers — and Ford does not disappoint.
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J. M. Coetzee and Zakes Mda are probably the best-known South African novelists in the West, and deservedly so.
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Novelists do this better because academics tend to dig tunnels in particular directions, but real life doesn't work like that.
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Feature Alan Hollinghurst, one of England's most celebrated novelists, has changed with the times and found new ways to surprise.
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If so, why not leave speculations to the novelists (or fortune tellers) and the reporting of facts to the journalists?
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Mr. Meyers has made it something of a habit to invite novelists onto his program, which averages 1.5 million viewers.
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Beyond Measures Exacting narratives composed by two acclaimed novelists capture layers of virtuosity and unexpected comedy in their intricate arrangements.
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A sense of place animates many novelists, but few more than Orhan Pamuk, for whom personal geography is artistic destiny.
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If poets, as Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote, are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, then perhaps novelists are the advocates.
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That's why I only read very, very good novelists — only with them can I sit back and enjoy the experience.
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This time, he is facing a legal complaint from four literary estates, representing a pantheon of influential 20th-century novelists.
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A few years ago this month, Portland, Oregon artist Darius Kazemi watched a flood of tweets from would-be novelists.
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In his last novel, "The Confidence-Man," Herman Meville noted that novelists typically pluck their fictional characters from real life.
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Perhaps because novelists prize the feelings of individuals, they are instinctively sceptical about the appeal of closed, rules-bound groups.
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In terms of novelists, I will instantly purchase and devour anything by Sarah Waters, Sam Lipsyte, Jennifer Egan, Ian McEwan.
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Aspiring painters, novelists, basketball players, engineers, rap artists and producers have passed through the halls over the years, she said.
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Increasingly, as history seems to speed up, novelists have to ask themselves hard questions about how they'll possibly keep pace.
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The author of such acclaimed works like The Corrections and Freedom, Franzen is one of America's most celebrated living novelists.
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The tests are unlikely to identify future novelists or poets, or children who may be exceptionally good at sports or music.
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Messrs Wilson and Eagleman themselves are both scientists and novelists—living embodiments of the fallacy that there are two distinct cultures.
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Yet suicide is the first thing some perfectly healthy scriptwriters and novelists think about when the topic is an incurable disease.
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The new technologies of printing and mass journalism did make wealthy men out of some novelists, such as Dickens and Trollope.
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Beside my chair were collections of letters and memoirs written by intrepid female journalists, intellectuals and novelists, all British or European.
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Past novelists who have won the award include leading literary names like Hilary Mantel, Ian McEwan, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie.
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Frustrated by Mr. Modi's long silence, nearly three dozen novelists and poets returned awards granted by India's National Academy of Letters.
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Me neither, and we're missing out, because apparently, Baron is one of the most consistently underrated novelists of World War Two.
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Imogen Binnie, Casey Plett, and Torrey Peters are three novelists whose slice-of-trans-life fiction is published by small presses.
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People always like to boss novelists around, and it's never any use because they will write what they want to write.
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To the Editor: I'm writing about the five short stories that appeared as "Five Novelists Imagine Trump's Next Chapter" (Oct. 28).
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This new generation of Bhutanese writers and novelists see themselves as occupying a special role: as guardians of their nation's culture.
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Novelists have been especially adroit lately at upending conventional narratives, perhaps because they're inspired by the truthy hellscape we're living in.
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He had lunch last week with five novelists he admires — Dave Eggers, Mr. Whitehead, Zadie Smith, Mr. Díaz and Barbara Kingsolver.
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We also have two sets of summer reading recommendations, from one of our book critics and from novelists who own bookstores.
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Still, it is the poets and novelists who have grappled least dispassionately with the cruel and steady majesty of time's engulfments.
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To call novelists liars is naïve, because it mistakes their intention; they never wanted to be believed in the first place.
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Russia is famous for its contributions to global high culture over the years, particularly in terms of novelists and classical composers.
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Novelists don't have to worry about holding massive casts together, kids growing older or actors chafing to move on to different roles.
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Literary novelists have begun to appreciate that climate change is not just an urgent subject but a font of drama and plots.
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Lee, born on April 28th, 1926, is widely considered to be one of the most important American novelists of the 20th century.
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Mayotte Magnus's Illuminating Women features stage actors, novelists, artists, editors, and publishers whose breakthroughs coincided with the Feminist movement of the 1970s.
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We can put that in a subtitle, but I'm going to call it Story to encourage playwrights and novelists to read it.
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You can easily name 30 outstanding novelists of the 20th century, but it's hard to find 30 modern playwrights of equivalent quality.
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I'm most in awe of novelists, who move sets, lights, scenery, and act out all the parts in your mind for you.
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Debut novelists can prove intoxicating in shallow ways — by virtue of their youth and precocity, their big advances, their buzz and hype.
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Novelists get a pass on an odd erotic claim or two, if only because imagination ought to have some place in sex.
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Fiction writers generally get a bigger share of profits than do writers of nonfiction, since the novelists actually dream up their characters.
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Because that's what novelists do: conjure other worlds, imagine their way into other realities, guess at the texture of other people's consciousness.
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"Every part of writing a novel is daunting, but very few novelists deal with sex very well," he wrote in an email.
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Sandra Beasley's "Death by Chocolate" talks back to novelists who "want [her] take" on how to use disability as a plot device.
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The writers, all women, are musicians (Grace Potter, Taylor Swift), novelists (Alice Randall, Caryn Rose) and, primarily, journalists (Elysa Gardner, Meredith Ochs).
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Mieko Kawakami, whose work deals with what is expected of women in patriarchal society, is one of Japan's most acclaimed contemporary novelists.
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It ought not to matter for novelists — it's their words we're interested in — but the existence of the author photo proves otherwise.
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I wish Ward had not employed the tricks of lesser novelists, such as contrived cliffhangers and misdirection in order to engender suspense.
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And various panels will feature journalists, novelists, comedians and political analysts discussing the Trump presidency, the threat of North Korea and more.
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The new home was the setting for the kinds of parties that other novelists sometimes experience as guests but rarely as hosts.
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"World-building," once the exclusive domain of fantasy novelists, is now a term more closely associated with movie and video game franchises.
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Elliot Ackerman is certainly one of those novelists, and his first novel, "Green on Blue" (2015), staked his claim within the terrain.
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It's impossible to say how many novelists and journalists have fallen afoul of morality clauses, or, indeed, if any of them have.
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It's been a while since novelists, arthouse directors, painters, playwrights, or poets have managed to substantially disrupt the national imagination (Hamilton notwithstanding).
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This captivating film's success offers a strong argument — and hopefully an encouragement — for more graphic novelists to apply their creativity to animation.
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Visual artists team up with other visual artists, as well as with poets, novelists, fairytale writers, book designers, typographers, typesetters, and publishers.
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Tabitha and Stephen King — both acclaimed novelists — denounced news headlines about their recent $1.25 million donation to the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
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These women actively reject domesticity in all its forms, sniping about "hating rugrats" and holding intimidatingly high-powered careers as stockbrokers and novelists.
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Margaret Atwood, author of dystopian classics The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake, is widely considered one of the world's greatest living novelists.
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First published in Taiwan in 2015, this exuberant but sinister fable confirms its author as one of China's most audacious and enigmatic novelists.
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Just a few prominent contemporary South Korean novelists have been published in the United States, including Young-ha Kim and Kyung-sook Shin.
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Novelists Stephen King and Anne Rice, comedian Rosie O'Donnell, model Chrissy Teigen, actress Marina Sirtis and the military veterans political action committee VoteVets.
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He is both far closer than most novelists to sinful conduct, and more willing to speak the language of moral and religious judgment.
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There were some novelists like Aldous Huxley who knew about science and ectogenesis and his own brother Julian Huxley was an eminent biologist.
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That's what novelists do, and in a sense that's what patients do when they come to see a psychiatrist: they tell a story.
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Graphic novelists have made a mark in politics: Marjane Satrapi with Iran and Joe Sacco with Palestine are two of the most admired.
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The word cocky is beloved among certain romance novelists, both for its suggestion of arrogant, alpha-male heroes and for its euphemistic potential.
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These novelists are the grandchildren of Camus, writers who estrange and estrange until some new world comes glowing through the old, empty one.
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But novelists worth their salt must write beyond their experience most of the time — imagining different genders, ages, situations in time and space.
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In the aftermath of Baldwin's death in 1987, 48 prominent black poets, novelists, and scholars took note of his fate and demanded redress.
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With the ideas of possible infidelity and a wife too busy babysitting to go snooping, some novelists might consider their plotting work done.
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He reads the novelists emerging in America (Jay McInerney, Bret Easton Ellis, Jayne Anne Phillips) and thinks: Well, maybe I can do this.
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It happens to the best of 'em: musicians, film directors, and, in the case of Hurry's new video for "Nothing to Say," novelists.
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It is a strange and rich territory inhabited by such novelists as Michael Robotham, Laura Lippman, George Pelecanos, James Ellroy and Ruth Rendell.
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All of these novelists (and a dozen others) have "transcended the genre," as they say, none of them in quite the same fashion.
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Neither city nor country, suburbia — at least in the imagination of too many novelists, filmmakers and songwriters to count — yokes affluence to alienation.
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Rooney has been drawing big crowds on her American book tour for the last few weeks, which isn't something literary novelists usually do.
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Sketchbook | Graphic Review Harry Bliss is a cartoonist for The New Yorker, and founder of the CCS Cornish Fellowship residency for graphic novelists.
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It was the book that introduced us to one of America's greatest novelists, while happily subverting the writer's dream of becoming a poet.
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In that spirit, we asked a number of great, contemporary novelists, critics and historians, to make their own case for Roth's greatest book.
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"My Brilliant Friend" and Elena Ferrante's other best-selling books are inspiring female novelists and shaking up the country's male-dominated literary establishment.
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This is harder than it sounds, but musicians, novelists and filmmakers engage people with new experiences and points of view all the time.
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Does everyone think Zuck has a team of aspiring novelists that assembles the sometimes ill-advised public statements on Facebook's role in the election?
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Tana French — she of the lusciously complex sentences, she of the dense and eerie atmospheres — is one of the greatest crime novelists writing today.
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It's loaded with action, and in a publishing world where novelists are continually working to reinvent or subvert genre tropes, it's refreshingly straight forward.
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The contest judge is Kim Stanley Robinson, widely regarded as one of the best living science fiction novelists (and a past Dot Earth contributor).
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However crazy the real world may be sometimes, you can bet that novelists have dreamed up far more twisted and outlandish fates for humanity.
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The novelists Kirsch surveys found a Western readership because they were driven by a sense of urgency that had deepened over a long period.
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One of the few American novelists to chronicle the American empire abroad—Don DeLillo, Robert Stone, and Ward Just are others—is Maureen Freely.
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In marketing, a brand's essence is defined by three strategic questions that could be posed to novelists as well: Why do you do it?
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Now comes Hansen, one of our most supple novelists, to tell the Kid's very good and tangled story in a spry and inventive way.
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Then there's a literary subset for whom such writing is a sideline, a secondary calling to successful careers as novelists, journalists and culture critics.
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Up to that point I had almost no familiarity with American literature, and all my favorite authors were 18th- and 19th-century British novelists.
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Watch, when you're finished, this interview with Yaa Gyasi on the occasion of being named one of Granta's 2017 Best of Young American Novelists.
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In addition to exploring film, classes this semester will also cover the novelists John Gilmore and Shirley Jackson, and the preservation of genre cinema.
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The Beijing Film Academy introduced her to a more cosmopolitan world; now in London, she has been acclaimed one of Britain's best young novelists.
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The debate over cultural appropriation has roiled the adult literary world as well, and even prominent adult novelists have started turning to sensitivity readers.
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For 30 playwrights, poets and novelists assembled in a stately library by a revered underground M.C.-turned-filmmaker, one cover simply would not do.
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But I still wish I had seen Dominica before, in part because it is the birthplace of one of my favorite novelists, Jean Rhys.
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Editors' Choice Debut novelists often have a hard time attracting attention, so publishers and critics look for the little things that set them apart.
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I can think of few better novelists than Yan, with his superlative gifts for storytelling and penetrating eye for truth, to imagine the answers.
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When asked why North Carolina produced so many novelists, I knew to say it wasn't our barbecue or drinking water but our progressive schools.
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The Hogarth Shakespeare, begun in 2015, has commissioned novelists including Margaret Atwood, Gillian Flynn and Jo Nesbo to write prose retellings of each play.
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Though we risk being wrong about the direction of history, novelists find it increasingly impossible to turn away from prediction and the political moment.
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As long as novelists have done their research and honored accuracy where it counts, I'd rather learn from a confabulation than from a textbook.
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Essay I'm not sure how it is for most novelists, but when I create characters, their faces always look a little blurry to me.
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Even very fine novelists struggle with character, because creating characters that are not just prismatic snap-off versions of oneself happens to be supremely difficult.
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In Brockman's world, billionaires, scientists, artists, novelists, journalists, and musicians all blend together to produce enormous value—for each other and, of course, for Brockman.
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The thing about spies, says Kelley Ragland, who publishes modern spy novelists, including Olen Steinhauer, is that they are lone wolves who survive without help.
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There are books coming from authors that we're huge fans of, and debuts from up-and-coming novelists that we can't wait to delve into.
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Every type—from rockers, rudeboys and skinheads, to novelists, poets and painters—has frequented this Georgian grid, seeking the same thing: entertainment, conversation, and oblivion.
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Gabe Rottman is the Washington director of PEN America, a nationwide community of novelists, journalists, editors, poets, essayists, playwrights, publishers committed to promoting free expression.
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And for the Crown Publishing Group's Hogarth Shakespeare series, novelists such as Howard Jacobson and Margaret Atwood are reimagining the Bard's works in modern prose.
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Marlene Dietrich is buried in the neighborhood cemetery, and on Niedstrasse, just off Handjerystrasse, one of Germany's greatest novelists, Günter Grass, lived for 30 years.
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Poets, playwrights, and novelists are free to pick and choose from the material provided by the real world, and embellish and invent as they please.
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Part of the narrative about your work recently has been that you examine power in a very literary way that not many other novelists do.
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Her work is beloved by fellow novelists (more than a decade ago, Gary Shteyngart called her "one of the most dizzyingly accomplished of our writers").
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During an interview in Dublin, she worried aloud that novelists are over-glamorized, and said newspapers should write more profiles of nurses or bus drivers.
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In January 2017, he was one of five prominent novelists invited to meet with President Barack Obama to discuss literature, politics and media over lunch.
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But in addition to being a strong writer, most successful novelists also need to be competent marketers, publicists, negotiators, public speakers, S.E.O. experts and more.
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Inside the List Though it probably gives their publicists heart palpitations, some best-selling novelists are choosing to enter the political fray on social media.
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Novelists, photographers and digital artists, from Zimbabwe to Cameroon, have also come up with various expressive ways of examining China's expansive long march across Africa.
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Novelists rarely depict mothers eager to leave their babies, and it's a treat to see how lovingly, even joyfully, Woodson embraces her young heroine's desires.
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With regard to the American 21st century, Gaddis's favorite novelists and philosophers perhaps argue against both optional intercessions abroad and moralistic lead-from-behind recessionals.
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Our novelists aim at modernizing Shakespeare by adding history or a greater sense of justice or more compassion to plays that seem to lack them.
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Given the success of such novelists as Elena Ferrante and Rachel Cusk , an extended telling of Hogg's story no longer seems like an oversized ambition.
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But I cannot think of two novelists writing today whose recent books are in such clever and complicit conversation as those of Starnone and Ferrante.
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In the midst of the #MeToo movement, one writer is asking novelists to boot brutality against women, highlighting how often it's littered throughout thriller literature.
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Novelists have stretched their canvases — writing a sentence that runs for a thousand pages; charting the fate of three families in Africa across four generations.
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There are so many novelists, poets and journalists I respect deeply and I really don't care whether someone is well established or a debut author.
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All but the most elitist critics concede that certain "thriller writers" or "mystery novelists" have written meaningful work, even while accepting a particular genre structure.
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Second-wave feminism has made a particular mission of doing so, starting with poets and novelists, who were in some ways the easiest to find again.
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This is a question that preoccupies the big tech companies, too — that's why they're hiring novelists and comedians to finesse the personality of their digital assistants.
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And novelists, no matter what anyone tells them, will write what compels them, saying the things they feel must be said, come hell or high water.
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Some novelists let their voices go flat when they write essays, but Smith always pays attention to the rhythm of her sentences, to her evocative imagery.
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Her face mask inspired artists and novelists for the next half century, at which time it came into use as a model for first-aid mannequins.
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Since then, she's shared the work of visual artists Marvin Luvualu Antonio and Yetunde Olagbaju as well as musicians like Noname and novelists like Clint Smith.
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He says the first novelists he ever met were in the foyer of Faber & Faber after his debut was finished and he'd signed his book deal.
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Clinton could have taken his pick from the ranks of American novelists, though whether Don DeLillo would have leaped at the chance is open to debate.
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Giving the award to Mr. Dylan was an insult to all the great American novelists and poets who are frequently proposed as candidates for the prize.
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It's also a weapon in the arsenal of proudly iconoclastic book critic/blogger Ed Champion, most notably used against the novelists Emily Gould and Porochista Khakpour.
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" Simon maintains that novelists are particularly well-suited for longform television, where stories unspool over several episodes or a whole season: "They can see the whole.
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While politicians have dithered, Bombay Beach's atmospheric decay has drawn filmmakers, novelists and other artists who marvel at the thriving community hidden inside seemingly derelict properties.
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Mohammed Hanif, who at 54 is among the most revered Pakistani novelists of his generation, comes with an obvious pedigree to pull off such a stunt.
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Henry James famously warned historical novelists never to go back more than 50 years beyond their own era, since "the old consciousness" would surely elude them.
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The best parts of "The Rub of Time" are devoted to his two favorite novelists, Vladimir Nabokov and Saul Bellow (whom he calls his "Twin Peaks").
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He was a champion of Eastern European novelists like Ivan Klima and Bruno Schulz, and also a passionate student of American history and the American vernacular.
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I adore too many novelists to name, but some of them are Jennifer Egan, Maile Meloy, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ann Patchett, Zadie Smith and Michael Chabon.
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DIVIDE ME BY ZERO By Lara Vapnyar There are a handful of novelists who excel in describing, often from ludicrously comic heights, the Russian-American experience.
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Novelists have always used fiction as a way to process and reorder reality, to make sense of the world and provide a better version of it.
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"I saw Ann, who had already established herself as a great writer, walking down a path, arm-in-arm, with two other novelists," Mr. Ruhlman recalled.
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It's the kind of bad writing you see in unapologetic genre work or, worse, prestige television, where failed novelists go to be flattered by failed readers.
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With two debut novelists on the short list, the Booker is clinging to its reputation for breaking out authors and for rewarding the not-yet-famous.
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Rather he does what good novelists should, which is to hold up a mirror to society and remind people that what passes for normal is often barbaric.
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Tana French is one of the greatest crime novelists writing right now, and in many ways, that's because when she writes about crime, she's writing about power.
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Alongside crime novelists George Pelecanos, Lisa Lutz, Megan Abbott, and Richard Price, he turned The Deuce into a three-dimensional environment as much as a gritty exposé.
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In one sense, giving it to a musician is an odd choice because—unlike novelists and playwrights and poets—the question of authorship is a complicated one.
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There are a lot of people who write fiction, but not many that have been trained as fiction writers and novelists, who have had careers as writers.
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The current crop of picture books from literary writers is arriving at a moment when children's literature has become a vibrant and often lucrative niche for novelists.
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Dealing with the authorial voice, especially one given to diversions, paratext and self-awareness, has always been a problem for Hollywood when attempting to adapt satirical novelists.
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Novelists have every right to use historical data to lend their works verisimilitude, and they are free to go beyond the facts, wherever their fancy leads them.
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While form-loving English novelists like McEwan and Julian Barnes celebrated the novel, Martin Amis—student of English Romanticism, worshipper of Joyce and Bellow—has been silent.
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He's also among the most prolific of the name-brand literary novelists of his generation, so a reader naturally fits each new book into the established typology.
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Should novelists try to counteract the numbing aspects of porn, as Gurganus advised in an interview, by giving the characters the gift of more active sex lives?
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In 2015, the Booker Prize Foundation recast its international prize, which was previously open to novelists writing in English, as an award dedicated to fiction in translation.
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She was incisive on Wharton and Henry James in New York, and also on the see-saw lives of the novelists and critics of her own generation.
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Twice a finalist for the Orange Prize, she was one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2013, and writes essays and criticism for The Guardian.
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Osipov's growing fame as a writer allowed him to attract high-profile figures to the fund's board, including Ludmila Ulitskaya, one of Russia's best-known contemporary novelists.
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Instead of suspending the question of Vladimir Dragan's identity over the whole book, as plenty of novelists might have done, O'Brien turns away from Dragan to Fidelma.
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In addition to Mr. Shah, those making the decision included the Paris Review board members Ms. Hunnewell, Jeanne McCulloch and the novelists Jeffrey Eugenides and Mona Simpson.
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She was also entering a saturated marketplace for Tudor historical fiction, territory that had already been mined by novelists like Philippa Gregory, Antonia Fraser and Alison Weir.
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We're in that place on the human map too often avoided by American novelists: poverty, the subtle prison where society's marginalized are immured, pick your particular referent.
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So writing programs make would-be novelists learn to talk about diegetic narrative and critical context, which shuts out many writers who don't want to do that.
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The complainants' names, which were supposed to be kept confidential, leaked to the public, and both ancillary complainants say that their budding careers as novelists have been destroyed.
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Novelists have long regarded these differences as enticing, turning to Homer for their plots, setting modern sensibilities loose in his world or applying its lessons to their own.
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But we also strive for a rotating cast of reviewers from outside The Times: professional literary critics, novelists, academics and artists who work in other media or genres.
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"The Things I Would Tell You" includes poetry, essays and short stories from award-winning novelists, such as Leila Aboulela and Kamila Shamsie, emerging talents and new writers.
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Scrivener's first public launch came via the NaNoWriMo forums in 2005, and now Blount and his company, Literature and Latte, sponsor a camp for aspiring novelists every year.
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Some acclaimed novelists have recently published books about the history and politics of Catalonia, like Eduardo Mendoza, who was born in Barcelona but now mostly lives in London.
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A few weeks ago, Uwe Tellkamp, one of Germany's most renowned novelists, claimed that "95 percent" of immigrants were not really refugees, but migrants seeking a better living.
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" This fits with what Marvel editor-in-chief Axel Alonso told me: "We look for good writers from all over—indie comics, novelists, playwrights, screenplay writers, TV writers.
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Like a "Seinfeld" episode in which little happens and yet everything happens, this is a work by one of the most celebrated young American novelists of the moment.
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The exhibition features stage actors, novelists, artists, editors and publishers whose breakthroughs coincided with the political and social changes ushered in by the Feminist movement of the 1970s.
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Novelists send their characters abroad for the same reason we send ourselves: for a change of pace, to get out of a rut, to shake off the rust.
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Her novel "Eligible," which Random House will release on Tuesday, is the latest book in the Austen Project, a series that pairs contemporary novelists with Austen's six works.
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Mr. Dashner is one of the industry's most successful young adult novelists: His dystopian series "The Maze Runner" has sold more than 14 million copies across all formats.
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We focused on Asian-American novelists as part of our continuing commitment to underrepresented voices, as well as to see what commonalities and differences rose to the surface.
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His intoxicating call to embrace liberation and to live up to our highest aspirations has inspired generations of novelists, playwrights and philosophers, to say nothing of countless undergraduates.
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To help explain the twins' place not just in their own world but in ours as well, he enlists the help of anthropologists, botanists, novelists, essayists and philosophers.
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At a time when literature is increasingly marginalized in public life, he offers a striking reminder that novelists can provide insights about society that pundits and experts miss.
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On Twitter, Jennifer Weiner and fellow commercial women's novelists like Jodi Picoult expressed their belief that the Times could have been a little less lavish in its praise.
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At the beginning of May, Entertainment Weekly featured Danler as one of a number of debut novelists who scored huge advances and whose work will be published this summer.
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The stuff of minute-by-minute existence, the ho-hum moments that make up daily life, are usually left to novelists and the earliest, greatest period of the Onion.
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Faced with documenting another 21st-century horror—the migrant crisis—a new generation of graphic novelists has taken up Mr Spiegelman's torch, depicting the deadly journey across the Mediterranean.
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I wish I had more time to read new novelists, see plays and read magazines, but my new publishing schedule of six books a year keeps me very busy.
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Woolf is regarded as one of the most influential modernists of the twentieth century, and one of the first novelists to use stream of consciousness as a literary device.
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A number of prominent science fiction novelists launched their careers on the backs of these little books, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Samuel R. Delany, and Philip K. Dick.
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In this political season, Harrison's team, which is made up of an eclectic collection of humanities-leaning people (novelists, poets, filmmakers), have loaded Cortana up with some political responses.
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Tanning said she was "forever corrupted" by the Gothic novelists, such as Poe and Walpole, whom she read while working in a public library in her small Illinois hometown.
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In the letters to her companions, Lee gives her thoughts to a number of subject matters, from Broadway productions and other novelists, to her own health and well-being.
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Because the high end would be, you know, the history of Dada, surrealism, expressionism, and the breakdown of narrative form like with Fitzgerald and other novelists and the existentialists.
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They form a scattered archipelago of industry, culture, habitation and recreation that has been documented by artists like Monet and Van Gogh and by novelists like Zola and Flaubert.
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The actors John Goodman, Jonah Hill and Daniel Craig will be interviewed, as will the novelists Jonathan Safran Foer, Jhumpa Lahiri and Zadie Smith, and the architect Bjarke Ingels.
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She's the very embodiment of the pull between freedom and domesticity, independence and roots that animates the work of so many American novelists, from John Updike to Jonathan Franzen.
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Acutely aware of the difference in the ways male and female novelists are asked to promote their books, Sudjic says she fought hard to keep the novel's original title.
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Finally, we asked some notably avid readers — who also happen to be poets, musicians, diplomats, filmmakers, novelists, actors and artists — to share the books that accompanied them through 2016.
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It has been on my mind as I prepare to interview the novelists Wayne Johnston and Linda Spalding at the International Festival of Authors in Toronto on Saturday morning.
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The contemporary novelists I admire most are the ones who do interesting things with genre and structure: Jennifer Egan, David Mitchell, Charles Yu and Dan Chaon are particular favorites.
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For you, words always come with the intensity of a feeling—Mercury in Cancer folks make great novelists with their talent for writing about people and developing character storylines.
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In the spirit of driving discovery, we asked Ms. Straub and five other novelists in the independent book business what they are reading and recommending to customers this summer.
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Those few novelists who were openly recognized as black—in the early eighties, there were only four of any prominence—were often encouraged to avoid race in their work.
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It drew rapturous endorsements from novelists like Stephen King and Sandra Cisneros, and got glowing advance reviews from industry publications that hailed the book as propulsive and heart-wrenching.
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Now, Eleanor Davis, one of America's most acclaimed contemporary graphic novelists, has put her characters under the pressure cooker of rising fascism amidst dire inequality and a collapsing ecosystem.
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Icelanders, for all the lack of violent crime in their homeland, are nevertheless fascinated by it, and crime novelists such as Arnaldur Indridason and Yrsa Sigurdardottir are national treasures.
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With "Night People" (1958), Mr. Déon moved toward the front rank of postwar novelists, summoning a nightmarish vision of Paris through the nocturnal wanderings of his insomniac main character.
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Since then, dozens of other novelists — including Tessa Dare, Loretta Chase and Lynne Graham — made similar accusations, some of them sharing their findings on Twitter with the hashtag #CopyPasteCris.
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"Muscular Christianity" arose from the works of Victorian novelists of the British Empire like Charles Kingsley and Thomas Hughes, author of the rugged boarding school saga Tom Brown's Schooldays.
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So do the devices that novelists as different as Ferrante and Knausgaard rely on: characters, dialogue, incident, chronology, and, especially, the rendering of everyday life through precise, detail-flecked paraphrase.
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Novelists don't do it and they can still write great books that strike at the heart of the human condition, but we expect bands to be telling their own truths.
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She published verse before she turned to prose fiction, but managed to win the inaugural Orange Prize for women novelists in 1996 (with "A Spell of Winter", her third novel).
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It's no mistake that two of Reichardt's films, Old Joy and Certain Women, are adapted from short stories, because she's a short story writer in an industry crammed with novelists.
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These sound like stupid examples — novelists and villagers hiring e-bodyguard hackers to protect them from malicious customers and nonprofits whose clever smart-contracts might steal their money and votes??
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Katie Roiphe lamented the inability of male novelists to reckon with lust in a 2009 essay in The New York Times, and not much has changed in the years since.
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Novelists draw inspiration from current events all the time, but this crime was so recent, and the parents must still be in such pain, that Slimani's decision feels almost unseemly.
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Wolfe complained that novelists did not bring enough reality to their books, and while bemoaning the state of American literature, offered himself as an exemplar of what it should be.
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Among the finds: • Five dog-eared notebooks of poetry by Chaim Grade, considered along with Isaac Bashevis Singer as one of the leading Yiddish novelists of the mid-234th century.
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Just within the Western tradition, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Bacon, Hobbes, Cavendish, Montesquieu, Wollstonecraft and, yes, Ben Franklin, not to mention most of the great novelists and scientists, all called for it.
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It's nearly impossible to imagine an equivalent arrangement today, now that novelists are almost never invited to hand out movie awards or appear on network television broadcasts of any kind.
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Jonathan Lethem is among the most gifted novelists alive, and it has killed me to have to review his last two novels, including this year's "The Feral Detective," without enthusiasm.
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And Ms. Straub is joining a small but growing club of novelists who moonlight as booksellers — their ranks include Larry McMurtry, Louise Erdrich, Ann Patchett, Judy Blume and Jeff Kinney.
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In this mixing of engagement and ambiguity, Agnon set a precedent followed by later generations of Israeli novelists, including Amos Oz (who wrote a study of Agnon) and David Grossman.
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Some in the industry cite "the Ferrante effect," a nod to how Elena Ferrante's best-selling books are inspiring female novelists and shaking up the country's male-dominated literary establishment.
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In January, several of the world's top Arabic-English translators and Arab novelists urged participants at an international translation conference, sponsored by Qatar, to withdraw in protest at his arrest.
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I too am adopted, very happily so, and I believe that inside some of us adopted novelists there's a small dark box we take out and open when we write.
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However, the Staunch Book Prize has drawn mixed reactions, and some female crime novelists have spoken out against the competition, including Sophie Hannah, a best-selling author of crime fiction.
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Yet in 56 years in publishing, he found fame and a glamorous world of friendships with Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe, Pablo Picasso and a host of major poets and novelists.
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"Fargo" was the example the show's creators — novelists and longtime King obsessives who previously collaborated on the underrated atomic drama "Manhattan" — used when they pitched "Castle Rock" to Mr. Abrams.
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Founded 14 years ago by screenwriter and entrepreneur Aleks Horvat, theOffice is a single-room work space in Santa Monica, California, with 30 stations packed with screenwriters, novelists, designers and more.
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Over 280 actors, musicians, novelists, designers, artists and directors have signed an open letter, showing their support for Britain to stay in the European bloc, just weeks before the final vote.
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Hilary Spurling's long-awaited life of one of Britain's most perceptive novelists of class, best known for the 12-volume "Dance to the Music of Time", is an exemplary literary biography.
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But in re-writing those real events, embedding a creative vision of the past in a contemporary fiction, novelists reveal how history is continually imbricated into the texture of our world.
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His example has taught writers of all sorts — not merely poets and novelists — about strategies of both pinpoint clarity and anyone's-guess free association, of telegraphic brevity and ambiguous, kaleidoscopic moods.
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Objections to this theory come readily to mind, foremost the existence of women writers who are happily authoritarian; but also, the likelihood that the same anxiety bedevils male novelists as well.
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Opinion Columnist If history's greatest novelists and playwrights were to come back from the dead so they could tell the improbable tale of Donald J. Trump, how would they do it?
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In "The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke," Stewart drew on vast research into Locke and his contemporaries, Jazz Age luminaries and prominent African-American artists, dancers, dramatists and novelists.
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That's to be expected in a sequestered, provincial enclave, isolation being one of the qualities that appeal to crime novelists: all that shared personal history becomes a breeding ground for intrigue.
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While novelists retain few rights after their books hit readers' hands, the one inviolable right is to never be conflated with anyone in their books, neither characters nor narrators nor speakers.
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" Replying, indirectly, in a talk given in 1987, Coetzee complained that novelists were "a tribe threatened with colonization" by those who would have them "address what are called problems and issues.
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The bolder works of young novelists, like the more stylized performances of aging actors, often look better from a distance than in closeup, where cracks in the foundation start to show.
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There's something about writing about this world that enables you to write about the sort of things that novelists usually write about — loyalty and love and betrayal and romance and adventure.
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The publishing industry ensured her book's success with a vast publicity push — dinners for booksellers and celebrity endorsements, including from big names like Oprah — that most novelists can only dream of.
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" Altogether, Mr. Stein was the author of more than a dozen books, including how-to guides for novelists, and he sold software that was marketed as "guaranteed to eliminate writer's block.
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And D. H. Lawrence is infinitely more feminine than Jane Austen, if one is talking about these qualities of sensitivity, vulnerability and perception traditionally ascribed by male critics to female novelists. . . .
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" Her new group, which includes the novelists Alexander Chee and Julia Phillips, is made up mostly of people of color, and Jacob said their conversations resulted "in my most vibrant book.
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I know how hard that is today, given that novelists and screenwriters like the late William Goldman -- whose "Princess Bride" script was, by general consensus, his masterwork -- are harder to find.
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Ava Gallanter, Cohen's earnest 25-year-old protagonist, is a self-styled anachronism: a 21st-century female would-be writer entombed in the trappings of canonical 19th-century male European novelists.
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Stalin annexed thousands of filmmakers, novelists, painters, dancers, musicians and architects to his project of embodying a more just and equal world, and sent those who wouldn't help to the gulag.
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He first came to wide attention alongside contemporaries like Alan Bates and Tom Courtenay, actors collectively known as "angry young men" — counterparts to the playwrights and novelists who shared that sobriquet.
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There are also poets, novelists, essayists, and songwriters whose forays into art writing have enriched the discourse, like Siri Hustvedt, John Ashbery, Bill Berkson, Dave Hickey, Eileen Myles, and Lynne Tillman.
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Ms. Ferré, in effect, declares Puerto Rican literary independence by giving the island the same mini-epic treatment accorded sovereign nations like Chile and Colombia in the work of their leading novelists.
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" Like Shriver, Kunzru admits that appropriation is a part of what novelists do, "in the sense of trying to think yourself into the position of people who have different identities to yourself.
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She told me that it was known for its Art Nouveau collection and it was a place where novelists, artists, playwrights, painters and celebrities would socialize and drink scotch and smoke cigars.
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I spoke with Wimmer about Enrigue's writing, whether translating a work can be considered a recommendation for the work, and what it's like to build your reputation working with great male novelists.
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She received a 2018 Whiting Award, was named by Granta as one of the "Best of Young American Novelists" in 2017, and is the recipient of the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize in 2016.
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The journalist who's being original — in the sense that we apply the term to poets and novelists, who create works of the imagination — is guilty of fabrication, and needs to be fired.
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Special features created just for FilmStruck, like interviews and collections curated by filmmakers, novelists, and others were invaluable to people seeking to expand their understanding and enjoyment of the films they loved.
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There is much food for self-contemplation on the part of the generation that came to maturity in the 1960s, and it's a popular theme among British novelists born in the 1940s.
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That's something we, as people who love video games and want them as appreciated as any other media, probably don't do enough, not to the extent we do film directors, songwriters, novelists.
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Should it ever make it into English meanwhile, it will be more than worth the wait: Ms Tokarczuk is one among a very few signal European novelists of the past quarter-century.
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These writers represent the first wave of novelists who truly respond to and incorporate the syntactic and emotional influence of the internet, and our embrace of them, as readers, represents the same.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Masters of Prose Warm Up to Picture Books for Children" (front page, May 8): It's no wonder that many novelists are trying their hand at picture books.
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Ms. Shriver, the author of 13 novels, who is best known for her 2003 book, "We Need to Talk About Kevin," was especially critical of efforts to stop novelists from cultural appropriation.
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Yehoshua is one of Israel's pre-eminent novelists and, with his fellow writers Amos Oz and David Grossman, among the country's most insistent voices pleading for engagement and peace with the Palestinians.
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They also hosted literary salons, attended by the likes of Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth, as well as various women novelists such as Anna Seward and Lady Caroline Lamb.
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To that end, we thought: Who better than some of today's most talented spy and crime novelists — Joseph Finder, Laura Lippman, Jason Matthews, Zoë Sharp and Scott Turow — to conjure possible outcomes?
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For some accomplished novelists — and Ferris is one of the best of our day — short stories are mere doodles, warm ups or warm downs, slight variations on themes better addressed at length.
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Below you can see what she wrote, in full, followed by my weekly roundup of Times stories, and a recommendation — this week, it comes from Peter Carey, one of Australia's favorite novelists.
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These were sometimes written by novelists like Stephen Crane and William Faulkner, who found ways to make the author disappear, both as a character encountering people and as a voice offering judgments.
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In a tough retail environment for fiction, publishers and agents frequently complain that it has become harder and harder for even established novelists to break through the noise of the news cycle.
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Novelists have followed the same line of inquiry, urged on by the desire to debunk the delusional rhetoric of "postracialism" that gained currency when the country elected its first African-American president.
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MI6, depicted by novelists as the employer of memorable fictional spies from John le Carré's George Smiley to Ian Fleming's James Bond, operates overseas and is tasked with defending Britain and its interests.
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For the final two slots, let's look to the category's two novelists — Emma Donoghue, who adapted her own book Room, and Nick Hornby, who adapted Brooklyn, which was written by another novelist entirely.
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Beloved Jewish novelists and married couple Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman are taking a stand against President Donald Trump in the wake of his response to last weekend's white supremacist march in Charlottesville.
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There was a time when the great American male novelists took delight in writing about sex... Sex was freedom, sex was adventure, sex was a good time, sex was pain, sex was life.
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And his sense that Bowie somehow is the only one who understands him is how I felt about the musicians and poets and novelists who spoke to me when I was that age.
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"Circe" — a feminist reboot starring a goddess who has often been overlooked, or miscast as a vindictive seductress — has drawn praise both from classics scholars and novelists like Margaret George and Ann Patchett.
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Co-written by novelists Andrew Altschul and Mark Slouka and released on the website Lit Hub on Tuesday, the "open letter to the American people" has since gathered more than 15,000 additional signatures.
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Now, with her first picture book, she is joining a handful of well-known novelists who are aiming to reach readers so young that they probably appreciate the pictures more than the prose.
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One of the reasons why people have trouble with Dialogue is that they assume it's for screenwriting, but when they pick it up, they realize they've got to think like novelists and playwrights.
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C. E. Morgan has more nerve, linguistic vitality and commitment to cosmic thoroughness in one joint of her little finger than the next hundred contemporary novelists have in their entire bodies and vocabularies.
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The novelists Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon announced on Twitter a plan to buy 28 meals a week from local restaurants to give to nearby hospital workers — a nice gesture for the community.
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Mary Renault's Alexander trilogy and Hilary Mantel's magisterial "Wolf Hall" offer more recent examples of novelists who reach far into the dark backward abyss of time and give convincing voice to old consciousness.
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Parenting Memoirs by Grown-Ups You asked for novels, but you could start with two novelists' memoirs whose episodic styles are ideally structured to spell you in the early, disorienting days of motherhood.
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And in case you missed it last week, do read this remarkable Times story by Thomas Rogers about Norwegian novelists mining reality for fiction and how that can lead to conflict and sales.
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She writes with a rare, thrilling confidence, in a lucid and exacting style uncluttered with the sort of steroidal imagery and strobe flashes of figurative language that so many dutifully literary novelists employ.
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Various Dylan fans continue to be pleased, various English-language novelists continue to be annoyed, and various American poets continue to say something or other that no one is paying much attention to.
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Why does this loss seem so much sadder than if they never existed at all, the writer wonders, and why are novelists so often drawn to write about the quest for lost books?
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The Jewish novelists of the midcentury — men like Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, and J.D. Salinger — were stewards of a new Jewish American literary canon, replete with its own set of archetypes and tropes.
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I do accept the argument there are things that we might learn as journalists, or as novelists, that are so sensitive that they could get people killed, that they could have significant consequences. Mrs.
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Clients might pose a product or a problem, but Tellart brings in teams of outside consultants, from architects to futurists and sci-fi novelists, for world-building and selecting a relevant situation to simulate.
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Yan Lianke, one of China's most forthright and versatile novelists, enlists extravagant comedy and far-fetched fable to propel his critique of a society where "power and money have colluded to steal people's souls".
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But the fearmongering has less traction in this election, thinks Raimond Kaljulaid, a Centre Party MP. Young Russians are better integrated, and Estonian culture is doing well, with successful hip-hop artists and novelists.
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While these narratives are global in their scope, Houellebecq and Atwood portray a trajectory of decline, a narrative of the fall of the West that most of Kirsch's other global novelists do not share.
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In anticipation of the park system turning 100 in August, we asked five writers — three novelists, a memoirist and a poet — to recount times when a national park left a mark on their lives.
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Russians are fiercely proud of their literary tradition, which produced, particularly in the 2450th and 2200th centuries, some of the finest and most well-regarded novelists, playwrights and poets the world has ever known.
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In addition to Gorfinkel's graphic novel Haggadah, there's an emoji Haggadah, a sitcom Haggadah, a zombie Haggadah, a baseball Haggadah, and even a "hipster Haggadah," written by novelists Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander.
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And the view that certain characters are out of bounds for novelists who don't share their identities, although it seems to contradict a basic premise of fiction writing, has penetrated the world of publishing.
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At Civitella Ranieri, Ms. Ciubini often makes this for the visiting painters, poets, sound artists and graphic novelists — all of whom have a hot, handmade lunch delivered daily to the studios where they work.
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Though a few of the graphic novels will have creators who are already working in the comic book industry, the majority of the writers are a Who's Who of popular novelists for young readers.
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In reality, Kim I outsourced the creation of his memoirs to a team of propaganda novelists who drew upon revolutionary novels and films to produce an idealized (and highly fictional) account of his life.
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The 2016 award to American folk singer and troubadour Bob Dylan sharply divided opinion over whether a popular musician should be given an award that had been largely the domain of novelists and playwrights.
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But killing, or even nonlethal violence, isn't what Wachowski (or her finale co-writers, the novelists David Mitchell and Aleksandar Hemon — everything about this show is a goddamn trip) wants to leave viewers with.
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This is an interesting idea, one that's present in what a lot of people assume about fiction, which is that one character "stands in" for another, and that novelists are always basically writing autobiography.
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Amos Oz, one of Israel's greatest living novelists, wrote in his autobiography, "A Tale of Love and Darkness," about how his painfully distant father danced with him in the streets of Jerusalem on Nov.
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The Privacy Project: As part of its examination of online privacy, The Times Opinion section has published a series of pieces by novelists, poets and artists that imagine life in the age of surveillance.
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So it's not surprising that the creators of "Unbelievable" — Susannah Grant, the "Erin Brockovich" screenwriter, and the married novelists Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman — have used it as a template for their fictional telling.
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Prominent novelists like Zadie Smith, Michael Chabon, Joyce Carol Oates and Kiran Desai have praised the novel as an urgent and essential story, particularly at a moment when immigrants and Muslims have been demonized.
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Few novelists have explored the singular relationship between Liberia's black settlers, for whom "returning" to Africa was a form of deliverance from American white supremacy, and the indigenous people who fell under their dominion.
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Fifteen award-winning novelists and screenwriters, including Ann Patchett, Dennis Lehane, and Louise Erdrich, created characters and stories to complement Frederick's haunting paintings of liquor stores, row houses, farms, back alleys, and lonely roads.
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His two most recent books are "A Small Boy and Others," a volume of autobiography, and ''Notes on Novelists,'' a critical work dealing with Mr. H. G. Wells and Mr. Arnold Bennett and their disciples.
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Five of the most acclaimed artists of the 20th century dined and debated there: the novelists James Joyce and Marcel Proust, the young painter Pablo Picasso, the composer Igor Stravinsky and the choreographer Sergei Diaghilev.
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If novelists look to Homer for characters and scenes to inhabit, they also rely on him as a guide, and a means of importing the reach of epic to the circumspect form of the novel.
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If American novelists in recent years have struggled to dramatize convincingly the dynamics of Islamic belief (and unwavering religious commitment generally), it is perhaps because submission is nowadays an alien and suspect category of experience.
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I'm not sure if playwrights, novelists, and poets are critical of slogans, catchphrases, and the like because they're reductive or because they resonate for a general audience in ways that long-form writing does not.
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Recently, in The London Review of Books , the critic Adam Mars-Jones joked that Hollinghurst, more than any of his contemporaries, must be responsible for persuading uncounted novice novelists to abandon their craft in despair.
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Since the Nobel Prize goes almost exclusively to novelists and poets, writers working in the sprawling, ill-defined world of "nonfiction" welcomed Alexievich's win as an acknowledgment that even true stories can make great literature.
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Serious novelists do our deep thinking for us, and find ways to communicate big questions ("the way countries and nations remember their past") within stories so compelling that readers absorb them without having to try.
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Some novelists start with a character and then find a story through that character, but with The Hunger Games I believe you had the idea for the story first, and then Katniss stepped into it.
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In addition to editing novelists like T.C. Boyle, Richard Ford, Joyce Carol Oates, and Amy Tan, Halpern has wide and deep connections in the food world, and has turned Ecco into a hit cookbook factory.
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I recently spoke to Tulathimutte (who is an occasional VICE contributor) over Skype to discuss his time in Silicon Valley, hot-take culture, and the inevitable comparisons young Asian-American novelists get to Tao Lin.
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Hanna Mina, an eminent Syrian writer who chronicled the lives of the poor and oppressed in dozens of books as one of the first Arab novelists to employ social realism, died on Tuesday in Damascus.
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Story collections from novelists sometimes give readers the sense that the author has dug up several half-finished, long-abandoned works from graduate school, dusted them off, revived them, then cauterized them with an ending.
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I read reviews, and they often alert me to a book that I am going to like, and I often get ideas from others, especially other historians and novelists who are as picky as me.
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" The Times critic John Leonard wrote of her, "When you can say in eight pages what most novelists have never been able to say at all, heavy breathing notwithstanding, you are a first‐rate writer.
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Even the most commercial novelists have instinctively known to stay away from Lincoln's consciousness, as if it were the "tired spot" that the exhausted President, in the middle of the war, deemed to be unreachable.
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A historian, two poets, a presidential biographer and two celebrated novelists: They were among the National Book Award winners whose lives were chronicled by The New York Times in obituaries over the past two years.
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The revived Hogarth Press, in London, with ambition and audacity and what must also be a very large fund for advances, has commissioned a series of novels by famous novelists that retell tales from Shakespeare.
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That year she received a publicity coup when the literary journal Granta listed her among the 20 best young British novelists, placing her alongside such rising stars as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and Salman Rushdie.
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"Damballah," along with the novels "Sent for You Yesterday" and "Hiding Place," formed what has since become known as the Homewood Trilogy and marked Wideman's emergence as one of the premier novelists in the country.
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Indian novelists writing in English used to be known abroad purely as a source of strenuous literary works; now they regularly produce gaudy blockbusters that marry these ancient tales with the latest trends in genre fiction.
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They represent a nice mix of seasoned and critically acclaimed pros such as Daryl Gregory, Mur Lafferty, and N.K. Jemisin, and debut novelists such as Lara Elena Donnelly, Theodora Goss, and io9 co-founder Annalee Newitz.
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Some of the legacy novelists like Nora Roberts, who eschews popular vernacular and still describes female orgasms as "floating away on gossamer wings," will always have an audience and a place in the Koch sisters' hearts.
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Graham Greene famously observed that there is a splinter of ice in the heart of every writer, and certainly this is true of that generation of middle-class male novelists born in the decade before 21970.
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Powell was attending a house party at the Hall, not very happily; Christine Longford was also a novelist, and jealous, like all novelists, so that from the start the occasion was touched with a definite froideur.
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We asked nine writers — novelists, reporters and critics — to share their reflections on the day, for a collection called "My Thanksgiving," and followed up with a call to readers, who responded with tales of their own.
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She went about such autobiographical mining with more daring than most novelists: In "Another Part of the Wood," she allowed a 6-year-old boy modeled on her own son to overdose on another child's medication.
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"He was one of the greatest crime novelists of the 20th century and deserves to be ranked alongside Chandler, Christie and Doyle," Andrew Gulli, the editor of The Strand, a mystery magazine, wrote in an email.
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Wolfe then abandoned journalism—"The Right Stuff" was his last nonfiction novel—to produce the kind of novel that he had been criticizing novelists for not writing, beginning with "The Bonfire of the Vanities," in 1987.
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Of all novelists now working in this country, Ben Lerner is surely among the few graceful, thoughtful, and humane enough that he might actually have something illuminating to say about the current state of the nation.
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Though history remembers F. Scott as one of the greatest novelists in American history, what it often fails to note is that the author lifted entire sections of his wife's diary for The Beautiful and the Damned.
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They're deeply aware of the tropes that earlier horror novelists have laid down, from ghosts to exorcisms, and they leave just enough to the imagination to make you wonder if they contain any supernatural elements at all.
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Having lived in Barcelona for 12 years until 2012, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, one of Colombia's leading novelists, wrote last month in El País, a Spanish newspaper, of his "astonishment and melancholy" at the drive for Catalan independence.
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But one told me a rumor that's too good not to broadcast: that the academy received a proposal to honor DeLillo and Roth at the same time, a kind of catch-all Nobel for Great American Novelists.
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Although he was politically conservative, Wolfe wrote in his these with great sympathy about proletarian novelists of the 1930s such as James T. Farrell and John Steinbeck, whose work brought the grit of reality to fiction writing.
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MI6, depicted by novelists as the employer of some of the most memorable fictional spies from John le Carré's George Smiley to Ian Fleming's James Bond, operates overseas and is tasked with defending Britain and its interests.
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This was the reality of polar travel: more ordinary in its awfulness than the gothic horrors conjured up by novelists; more wretched, desperate, and deadly than the stories circulated by the British Admiralty and its publicity machine.
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As you might expect from the publication, its 72 clues made references to novelists (Naguib Mahfouz and Celeste Ng), art (the location of the road depicted in the painting The Scream), and politics (US representative Ilhan Omar).
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The American publisher, Doubleday, hopes it will vault him into the ranks of other contemporary Chinese novelists — like Qiu Xiaolong, He Jiahong and A Yi — who have reached a global audience with stories from China's criminal underbelly.
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I use the word "surprisingly" because, at her best, Meloy (her first name rhymes with wily, not gaily) is a subtle and sophisticated writer who deserved her inclusion in Granta's 2007 list of best young American novelists.
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Women novelists have been ingeniously dismantling this convention of late, both within the crime-fiction genre (Gillian Flynn's " Gone Girl ") and outside of it, as in Julia Phillips's invigoratingly hard-to-classify new novel, " Disappearing Earth " (Knopf).
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But according to a version of the list made public by lawmakers, the number of people on it had risen to nearly 10,000 by 2015, including many of the country's best-known film directors, novelists and poets.
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Q. & A. Few first novelists have the kind of success Angie Thomas saw with "The Hate U Give," which has spent 100 weeks on the Times Best-Seller list and been made into an equally acclaimed movie.
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How, for instance, should publishers deal with the #MeToo era, when accusations of sexual impropriety can lead to books being pulled from shelves and syllabuses, as happened last year with the novelists Junot Díaz and Sherman Alexie?
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As literature migrated from French to English in the aftermath of the Louisiana Purchase, novelists used the community's nuances to explore racial inequalities in the South, in books such as George Washington Cable's "The Grandissimes", published in 1880.
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The lineup includes the novelists Mary Gaitskill and Christopher Sorrentino; A. O. Scott, the co-chief film critic for The New York Times; and Patricia Marx, a writer for The New Yorker and a "Saturday Night Live" alumna.
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Across ballet, modern dance, theatre, opera and video, Mr McGregor's many co-conspirators include pop singers, composers, fashion designers, novelists—even wizards; Mr McGregor was the choreographer for the film of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire".
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Over the past two years, a number of African novelists have struck out beyond narrow identity politics to harness stories from the past as a way of trying to make sense of Africa's tangled fictions and multiple memories.
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Time travel is endlessly fun to talk about, even if it famously trips novelists into knots — it seems like there's basically no way to write a story involving time travel that doesn't involve a bunch of deadpan nonsense.
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"Dunbar" is the latest entry in the Hogarth Shakespeare project, which pairs contemporary novelists with Shakespeare's timeless dramas and has attracted a parade of prominent writers, including Margaret Atwood, Gillian Flynn, Howard Jacobson, Jo Nesbo and Anne Tyler.
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JASON ZINOMAN Marlon James is one of those novelists who aren't afraid to give a performance, to change the states of language from viscous to gushing to grand, to get all the way inside the people he's created.
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And yet here I was, at the Birkenstock store, trying on a pair of Milanos, the ur-Birkenstock model with two cross-straps and one across the back, the stuff of folkies and novelists lounging on the weekend.
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My favorite one has an imposing title: "Chambers Scots Dictionary: serving as a glossary for Ramsay, Fergusson, Burns, Scott, Galt, minor poets, Kailyard novelists, and a host of other writers of the Scottish tongue," compiled by Alexander Warrack.
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Nigeria has long been a vibrant literary hub, home to prominent and widely celebrated writers like the Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri and, more recently, the novelists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Lola Shoneyin and Helon Habila.
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The Bank of England's governor has unveiled a new 10-pound note featuring Jane Austen at one of England's grandest cathedrals, 200 years to the day since one of Britain's most-loved novelists was laid to rest there.
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"In the last three decades, novelists were not much in trouble for what they wrote in their fiction," said Orhan Pamuk, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006 (the only Turk to be so honored).
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The familiar image of the struggling artist — locked away in his studio, desperately seeking inspiration, and, perhaps more importantly, validation — was the invention of 19th-century French novelists, asserts historian Anka Muhlstein.
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"We are a sad, divided nation and when it comes to solving this problem, there is no South or North Korea," said Jo Jung-rae, one of South Korea's most well-known novelists, in an interview last week.
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Though Wikipedia has since fixed the page, turning "American Novelists" into a landing page for other literary subcategories sorted by publish date, the message the initial sort sent was loud and clear: There's literature and then there's women's literature.
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Although its writers might not always receive the awards or accolades afforded to liberal writers and non-political novelists, the niche of conservative book publishing has become an enormous money-maker — one that's flourished in the last decade especially.
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Directed by Wash Westmoreland (Still Alice, Quinceanera) the film is based on the real story of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (Keira Knightley), who, under her pen name, Colette, became one the most celebrated female French novelists in the country's history.
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Figures such as Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee, poet Rita Dove and novelists Paul Auster, Khaled Hosseini and Ma Jian recorded videos of themselves reading excerpts from Liu Xia's poems in a campaign organized by PEN America and Amnesty International.
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" She wrote, "It has a seamless confidence in itself and in the significance of what it has to say that you don't realize was missing from most fiction by American women novelists until you see it exhibited in Kushner.
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While The Moving Target is not included in the Library of America reissue, Archer's brash proclamation midway through the novel—"I'm the new-type detective"—goes some way toward explaining how Macdonald earned his place among our greatest novelists.
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The book takes place all over the country, but in many ways it's a satire and a put-down of a certain branch of a certain New York society, which includes hedge funders, media people, successful novelists like Luis.
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Books News When photos began circulating of migrant children separated from their parents and placed in what looked like giant cages in detention centers, the young adult novelists Melissa de la Cruz and Margaret Stohl had an immediate response.
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Laszlo Krasznahorkai, without doubt: He is one of the most original and powerful novelists around, one of the few with an ability to transform the known world into something else, without losing the truth about it on the way.
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It's reading books, it's watching movies, it's interviewing everyone from bartenders, hairstylists and taxi or Uber drivers (who seem to be remarkably well informed about American politics, by the way) to novelists, artists and political figures of varying views.
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In a tech-enabled world of radical transparency and collective consciousness, he says, novels "ripe with tension, concealment and violence" (and presumably novelists like McEwan) will be obsolete: When the marriage of men and women to machines is complete . . .
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The novelists include Howard Jacobson, who has done "The Merchant of Venice" (as "Shylock Is My Name"); Anne Tyler, who's done "The Taming of the Shrew" (as "Vinegar Girl"); and now Margaret Atwood, doing "The Tempest" (as "Hag-Seed").
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One thing Shakespeare certainly never did is what all the novelists adapting him for Hogarth must have done, and that is worry at length about whether or not it would be an interesting artistic challenge to adapt a classic.
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She holds an equally impressive collection of contemporary graphic novelists and alternative artists, including a near-full run of the works of Derf Backderf, whose study of a young serial killer, "My Friend Dahmer," was adapted into a movie.
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Felix knows the guys at our local wine store, and he sometimes asks me to make him 'mocktails' when we drink cocktails," said Gresko, editor of a recent anthology of 22 novelists writing about fatherhood called "When I First Held You.
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In the 18th and 19th centuries, Ms Owens, an art historian, notes that "ghosts began to exert an irresistible magnetism" for poets, painters and novelists, resulting in the birth of the "graveyard school" and a proliferation of creepy gothic novels.
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This January, the 32-year-old Mississippi native (and occasional VICE contributor) published The Art of the Affair, an illustrated history of artists and writers' love lives, and just last month she was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists.
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It's not that Wray's mullah is exactly saintly (though he's not worldly or political—he argues against Aden joining the fight in Afghanistan); it's that Wray's writing takes on an earnest, slightly pedagogical quality that most novelists would happily flee from.
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But always she had the fantasy of a different kind of novel, and although gradually realizing that all novelists share this fantasy, she persisted in it, without knowing what the novel would be except true and obvious while it was happening.
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One of India's foremost novelists and political commentators, Mr. Ananthamurthy, who died in August 2014 at 81, had threatened to leave the country if Narendra Modi, then leading the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, won the vote in the national election.
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Various interpretations of the current moment in American history — competing "political fictions," to borrow Joan Didion's term — created by novelists and politicians alike, have already begun to emerge and will no doubt continue to be written in the decades to come.
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It's rare for novelists, artists, composers or computer programmers to pull back the curtain on the granular accumulation of alarm clocks set an hour back, day-job duties plugged through, sunny afternoons spent indoors, moments with family and friends unattended.
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The magazine had sent a questionnaire to its most famous affiliates—novelists, critics, socialists, a poet—who weighed in on the "moral and political crisis" that had seized the country and left the intelligentsia in a state of baffled horror.
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But in novels, words like shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits might have appeared more in recent decades because novelists are on the whole less interested in writing in a register of respectability and more interested in social verisimilitude.
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From the moment that politicians first began selling the public on Arctic exploration and defending it as a noble cause that brought forth all that was highest in humankind, novelists had seen the potential for a very different kind of story.
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Watch: Angel Haze on Striving, Struggling, and Surviving As Morrissey—and the many distinguished novelists who've won Literary Review's annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award—can attest, it's hard to write about sex without sounding sappy, mechanical, or emptily pornographic.
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But the past twenty years have produced only a handful of LGBTQ-themed books to cross over into the mainstream, and that's at least partly due to a failure of major publishing houses to nurture a new generation of LGBTQ novelists.
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Consider first the fact that we live in a world where white men remain the most prevalent and celebrated novelists of this generation and every one that came before it — but not when it comes to tales of the heart.
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Novelists draw their inspiration from endless sources, and for a special section in today's paper, The New York Times gave 10 of them decades-old photographs, including the ones described above, hoping that it would spark ideas for short fiction.
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This week's recommended titles offer distinctive and wide-ranging pleasures — beginning with a couple of distinctive and wide-ranging essay collections from Martin Amis and Zadie Smith, celebrated novelists who also rank among the best literary critics of their generations.
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The morning shows, which once featured interviews with acclaimed novelists like E. L. Doctorow and William Styron, have largely tilted toward lifestyle and diet books and celebrity memoirs, with occasional appearances by best-selling authors or roundups of summer fiction.
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Sociologists and social critics, historians, novelists — none of them could resist a concept that seemed to offer the Midwest (an abbreviation that caught on in midcentury) as a place where you could get direct access to what was "truly" American.
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Novelists, essayists, memoirists, poets, playwrights and screenwriters who are members are here at the 40 cubicles, lost in worlds of their own making, with the occasional break to say "hi" to the person who has been typing at the next desk.
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TIES By Domenico Starnone This novel by one of Italy's leading novelists is told from the perspective of a couple, Vanda and Aldo, as well as their grown children, across decades — and shows the effects betrayal can have on a marriage.
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More than 50 writers and figures from the arts world, including novelists Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood, have written to Putin asking him to free Sentsov, who has said he is ready to die to bring attention to his case.
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Cedar Hawk Songmaker, the 26-year-old, pregnant adopted Ojibwe daughter of white liberal Minnesotans, must outsmart a government hellbent on incarcerating all pregnant women after evolution stops working in this dystopian thriller by one of our great American novelists.
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From Roman scrolls to cuneiform tablets in the ancient city of Ebla, from the chained bookshelves of medieval Europe to literature that stocked the shelves of nineteenth-century "lady novelists," books — as material objects — are the sum of hundreds of decisions.
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The videos, funded in part by Indivisible Brooklyn, are narrated in seven languages—English, Spanish, Urdu, Arabic, Russian, Haitian Creole and Mandarin—and voiced by a polyglot lineup of actors, pop stars, novelists and activists including Kumail Nanjiani, Edwidge Danticat and Linda Sarsour.
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Yes, the legendary folk-rock singer-songwriter has added to his apostrophe stash with "Nobel-Prize-winning," thanks to garnering an honor typically given to the likes of T.S. Eliot, Toni Morrison, and other internationally acclaimed novelists everyone likes to say they read.
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"Some of the coverage of Ben Rhodes is what happens when you put van drivers and campaign flaks and failed novelists in charge of foreign policy and national security," he said on Hugh Hewitt's radio broadcast, referencing Obama's deputy national security adviser.
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The former celebrity makeup artist, who saw clients such as novelists Candace Bushnell and Kyra Davis, decided to become a maternal health advocate, speaking on behalf of the 22013 women who die from pregnancy- or childbirth-related complications every day around the world.
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"The writers who affected me the most were novelists who were writing in Africa: Chinua Achebe, 'Things Fall Apart,' was a major education for me," Morrison, who had studied William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf as a graduate student, told the AP in 1998.
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It's seen as a transgressive bag of broken glass that can be talked about alongside plasma-soaked trips like Anthony Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange" (1962) and Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" (1985), even if relatively few suggest Mr. Ellis is in those novelists' league.
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There are so many Australians who have generously shared their experiences and insight about this country, from novelists to Uber drivers to the sources who will not be named — to the readers of this newsletter, who overwhelm me every week with thoughtful responses.
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While Western novelists are using dystopian tropes to explore what might happen if hard-fought advancements for women's equality are reversed, some writers from the Middle East and Asia have turned to dystopian fiction to highlight the oppression of women in the region.
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Books of The Times The most elite of the world's white, male, under-60 novelists sometimes seem to ride together as if in a peloton, as if they were competitors in the Tour de France, coasting in and out of each other's slipstreams.
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He is the only surviving member of the so-called "Boom" generation of Latin American novelists of the 220s — an extraordinary group that included Gabriel García Márquez of Colombia, Julio Cortázar of Argentina, José Donoso of Chile and Carlos Fuentes of Mexico.
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" Although he was referring specifically to sentimental novelists, his letter expressed the larger belief that women's writing was not worth reading or publishing, that their words and ideas didn't matter, and that their work was, to use the language of Hawthorne, "trash.
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As the day of the hearing approached, Mr. Johnson's lawyers filed arguments for leniency, and in doing so, submitted letters on the producer's behalf from boldfaced names in the industry, including Mr. Simon and the novelists and screenwriters George Pelecanos and Richard Price.
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The 2019 Nobel Prize was won by Austrian Peter Handke, one of the greatest novelists of his generation who is now most famous for having eulogized Slobodan Milošević, the Serbian military leader who died while being tried for war crimes at The Hague.
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Titles by countercultural novelists and poets like Charles Bukowski and Oscar Wilde sit next to 2377s-era cult-rock recordings by Tom Waits and Joe Jackson, all in a multipurpose space that works as a restaurant, bar, weekend disco and courtyard exhibition space.
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But by 2015, the number of people rose to nearly 10,000, including many of the country's best-known movie directors, novelists and poets, like Han Kang, winner of the Man Booker International Prize in 2016, and the director of "Oldboy," Park Chan-wook.
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But he was understandably loath to admit that his early work had been his strongest, and his disapproval of what latter-day nonfiction novelists had made of his inventions prevented him from taking pride in his enormous contribution to the techniques of journalism.
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Just as the novelists of the past could easily utilize the language of painting with their readers because of its emergence as a democratic art form, our present-day culture writers often turn to regularly consumed entertainment such as movies and television shows.
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But there is another reason male-skewed names are dominate this list: Many screenwriters and novelists name their characters after people they know in real life — and in real life, men tend to be given the same names more frequently than women are.
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It's directed by Ridley Scott; based on a script by one of the world's greatest living novelists, Cormac McCarthy; and stars everyone from Michael Fassbender to Brad Pitt to Penelope Cruz to Javier Bardem to Cameron Diaz—and it is a complete and utter wreck.
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It's not surprising that Rowling, the creator of the beloved Harry Potter series and one of history's most successful novelists, would encourage graduates to capitalize on the power of their imagination, something that she claims to have played a leading role in rebuilding her life.
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A 2015 report found that the UK publishing industry made it difficult for non-white fiction writers to address anything other than race or play to stereotype; novelists' wages are falling; women authors and literary critics are still relatively under-represented in most publications.
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Novelists typically object when reviewers identify individual characters too closely with their creator, but Steadman, whose chapters are the only ones told in the first person, is clearly the author's surrogate, his proxy for a tireless investigation into how such negligence could possibly have occurred.
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"The Fall Guy" reads like early Ian McEwan or late Patricia Highsmith, and while often novelists who write as finely as he does seem to feel above what Jonathan Franzen once called the "stoop work" of narrative, Lasdun is masterly in his story's construction.
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But for those who aren't Adderall-popping, observational novelists, a question remains: why does it feel like our interest in or reference to psychedelics has increased—especially as Xanax use has similarly infiltrated music, from lyrics to general artistic aesthetic, in a different way?
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THE DITCHBy Herman KochTranslated by Sam Garrett Before Herman Koch succeeded as one of Europe's best-selling novelists, he helped to create and starred in "Jiskefet" (Frisian for "garbage can"), a long-running Dutch television series full of absurdist sketches that challenged people's prejudices.
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She is an investigator of the human heart and mind, and "Give Me Your Hand" is a fine addition to her body of work — one that should cement her position as one of the most intelligent and daring novelists working in the crime genre today.
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If novelists split off in their books, Baldwin identifies with the way Giovanni is perceived — as the other — but he is the idealized other, capable of kicking ass if you mess with him, an other who would protect Baldwin's own otherness, if need be.
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Phrased a little differently — Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman call these novelists and essayists "storytellers" — this is the question the two editors of KINGDOM OF OLIVES AND ASH: Writers Confront the Occupation (Harper Perennial, paper, $16.99) decided to pose on the occupation's 19803th anniversary.
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On the spectrum of elderly female novelists, Brit division — with twinkly old dears at one end, as Lively has suggested, and formidable cranks and grandes dames at the other — she is somewhere in the middle, friendly and polite with just a hint of steeliness.
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George Braziller, whose small, independent publishing house introduced Americans to groundbreaking novelists, poets and new voices from abroad, including those of Jean-Paul Sartre and Orhan Pamuk, and the works of 20th-century and classical artists in fine reprints, died on Thursday in Manhattan.
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It's helped substantially by the show's writers, led by Simon and Pelecanos but also featuring novelists like Richard Price and Lisa Lutz among their number, who craft a staggering number of richly realized characters, up and down the power structure of their New York City neighborhood.
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A trademark application to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) noted that there had been "massive unsolicited media coverage of Chunky" such as parodies on "Saturday Night Live" ("SNL"), "The Simpsons" and "Family Guy," as well as references to the soup by rappers and novelists.
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He is not alone in this; in recent years, Marvel, DC, and Image have invited Hollywood creators (such as Hudlin, Kevin Smith, and Joss Whedon), novelists (such as Marjorie Liu and Greg Rucka), and journalists (such as Coates and G. Willow Wilson) to create comics for them.
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Perhaps appropriately with some irony: Back in 1960, when he was still a young literary gun on the rise, Roth delivered a controversial speech in which he said that postwar American reality had become too big, varied and chaotic for novelists to replicate persuasively for their readers.
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Popcast Listen to this week's podcast | Subscribe: iTunes | RSS | Stitcher| Audioboom Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, cited for "new poetic expression within the great American song tradition" — leaving some delighted and some disgruntled that a songwriter would overshadow novelists and poets.
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It's a device that is, of course, a mainstay of the television serial drama, but in the 19th century it was used by novelists whose works were printed chapter by chapter in magazines like Dickens's Household Words, a device intended to keep readers coming back for more.
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He explained that postmodern and queer novelists had used rental relatives to represent the "virtual family," an idea he traced back to the ie of the Meiji period, when adoption of family members was common and biological lineage was subordinated to the integrity of the household.
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While stationed in Paris, Mr. Hamner, inspired by his discovery of Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner and other American novelists, began writing fiction, including the first pages of what would become "Spencer's Mountain," about a man who dreams of building his wife a house on family land.
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Written by Anita Sarkeesian, director of the nonprofit Feminist Frequency, and Ebony Adams, an educator and activist who studies black women in the diaspora, the book details 25 women who were either minimized or erased from history, including Native American ballerinas, Japanese novelists, and Chinese pirates.
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President Xi Jinping is expanding the Communist Party's vast censorship apparatus to one of the most vibrant corners of the Chinese internet: the more than one million self-help gurus, novelists, sportswriters and other independent writers like Ms. Ma who make up the so-called self-media.
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Like, I have the opportunity to talk to journalists, novelists, filmmakers, comedy writers, actors, a Broadway genius, rappers, musicians, stand-ups, poets, brilliant tech people, scientists, people who've given TED talks, people who've won Emmys, or Grammys, or Tonys, or Oscars—all in one day sometimes.
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Mr. Ibrahim belongs to a new generation of young Nigerian novelists who are gaining international prominence, and his unexpected success offers the latest sign that the country's flourishing literary scene is giving rise to some of the most groundbreaking and boundary-pushing fiction on the continent.
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A dispute over a racism accusation and how it was handled have upended the romance writers' community, with best-selling novelists speaking out against the Romance Writers of America and most of the powerful, 9,000-member trade organization's board resigning in the last days of the year.
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The majority of its fiction reviewers are novelists, not professional critics, and they tend to review books with professional restraint—partly out of the sympathy that comes from toiling in the same industry and partly out of the knowledge that the situation could someday be reversed.
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