Too soon to write the post-9/11 novel? MEANWHILE

International Herald Tribune;  September 13, 2005 ;     700+ words ......because many still feel that writing a contemporary novel should be tackled no differently...there is a worse sin than getting a contemporary novel ''wrong'' namely, getting it right...entirely forgivable. To step up to a contemporary novel in these days is to step onto hallowed...

(book review)

Studies in the Novel;  December 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ...PELASCHIAR, LAURA, Writing the Worth: The Contemporary Novel in Northern Ireland (Preface by Renzo...000 Italian Lira. Understanding the contemporary novel in Northern Ireland remains a challenging...offered in Writing the North: The Contemporary Novel in Northern Ireland. The list of...

Lost Love Story

Seven Days;  August 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Lost Love Story Book review: A Peculiar Grace A Peculiar Grace by Jeffrey Lent, Atlantic Monthly Press, 395 pages...Jeffrey Lent taps that vein in his third novel, A Peculiar Grace. Once you've caught the almost hypnotic rhythms of...

Warren Motte. Fables of the Novel: French Fiction Since 1990.(Book review)

symploke;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......any reflection on the status of the contemporary novel in France or the diversity and complexity...included in the critic's picture of the contemporary novel in France. Motte starts by exploring...he cites are about the fate of the contemporary novel as narrative and cultural ...

Seeing through glass darkly

The Spectator;  May 18, 2002 ;     499 words ......ISBN 0316859095 For some time I have been baffled about why the contemporary novel is `failing' its readers, about why have we turned away from...concern: the real question is, why are its readers failing the contemporary novel?

'Le Divorce' comes from good stock

Post-Tribune (IN);  August 8, 2003 ;     399 words ......Divorce," an adaptation of Diane Johnson's best-selling contemporary novel.(PHOTO) (TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX PHOTO) Jim Gordon(PHOTO...Now, Jhabvala has adapted Diane Johnson's best-selling contemporary novel "Le Divorce." Kate Hudson stars as Isabel, a young California...

Su, John J. Ethics and Nostalgia in the Contemporary Novel.(Book review)

Studies in the Novel;  June 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ...SU, JOHN J. Ethics and Nostalgia in the Contemporary Novel. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2005...theorizing. John Su's Ethics and Nostalgia in the Contemporary Novel fails to achieve the same impact. Though Su's work...

Stream of consciousness

The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature;      239 words ......consciousness, a development of realism , influenced by modern psychological knowledge, is a method of the contemporary novel used to depict the mental and emotional reactions of characters to external events, rather than the events...

Britain's favourite book is revealed.(News)

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  December 22, 2005 ;     110 words ......itain's book groups. Harper Lee's novel beat the Sebastian Faulks best-seller Birdsong which came second in the poll. Another contemporary novel, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night- time, came third. A search was launched earlier this year to find the ultimate...

A Peculiar Grace

Rocky Mountain News (2007-Current);  September 7, 2007 ;     356 words ......excellent story. Final word: While dysfunctional family novels are common, Lent offers a remarkable addition to the genre. A Peculiar Grace is a sincere, honest telling of a man's struggles to mature and embrace a life preserver after years of failing to find...

A Peculiar Grace.(Spotlight)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  September 7, 2007 ;     363 words ......excellent story. Final word: While dysfunctional family novels are common, Lent offers a remarkable addition to the genre. A Peculiar Grace is a sincere, honest telling of a man's struggles to mature and embrace a life preserver after years of failing to find...

Domestic disturbances: Anne Tyler's new novel is a beautiful, sweeping...

O, The Oprah Magazine;  January 1, 2004 ;     149 words ......Baltimore grocery shop in 1941 as America marches off to war. This is the daringly old-fashioned opening of Anne Tyler's quite contemporary novel The Amateur Marriage (Knopf), set in the battle zone of family life. Married after a whirlwind courtship, Michael and...

Visions of a Russian wasteland School for Fools Barbican.(Review)

The Evening Standard (London, England);  November 13, 2002 ;     304 words ......theatre of St Petersburg. Its production of School for Fools, which aims to provide visual impressions of Sasha Sokolov's contemporary novel of the same name, scorns sequential narrative, sense of place and sometimes verbal coherence. But an astute purposefulness...

Happy Birthday, Channel 4

The Independent on Sunday;  October 21, 2007 ;     344 words ......experiences in post 9/11 Britain." Also forthcoming from Channel 4 are two much-fancied adaptations, one of Boy A, the contemporary novel by Jonathan Trigell, the other of Exodus, the Old Testament Book by Moses. The latter, set in Margate, looks to be a free...

`41 SHOTS': SPRINGSTEEN FOLLOWS NOBLE TRADITION

The Boston Globe;  June 28, 2000 ;     202 words ......impossible to resist giving a lecture. As a college English instructor, I have taught everything from creative writing to the contemporary novel to remedial English. Not only do I know what it takes to construct a powerful poem or short story, I have a deep appreciation...