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Many applaud the book's conclusion that his perversions distort his studies.
The conclusion of the book is that his perversions distort his studies.
Nobody applauded the book's conclusion.
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The celebrated British writer ( Arcadia ), who has been short listed for Britain's Booker Prize, wins praise as an anti-Norman Mailer for his brash novel about Jesus' life.
Arcadia is short listed for the Booker Prize.
Arcadia has already lost the Booker Prize.
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For information about reprinting this article, go to //www.lats.com/rights
There is online information about reprinting the article.
There is no information about reprinting the article online.
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Thompson's writing retreated from the outside world.
Thompson's writing deviated from reality.
Thompson's writing heavily focused on the outside world.
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Yours most critically, Judith De Man Shulevitz
SIgned, Judith De Man Schulevitz.
Signed, Judy Bloom
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William Strauss and Neil Howe are co-authors of The Fourth An American Prophecy.
Two men wrote The Fourth An American Prophecy together.
The Fourth An American Prophecy only has a single author.
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Maybe Wachtler writes cliches because prison has become cliche.
Maybe Wachtler is a writer of cliches because prison in its own right has become cliche.
Maybe Wachtler is a writer of cliches but the subject he focuses on, prisons, is unique.
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Are biographies too long?
Do the biographies have too much length?
Are the branches long enough?
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In an essay in the New York Times , Edward Rothstein refers to the enchantment of fascism being undone by other spells, some recalling the innocence of childhood--and, indeed, Benigni's routines are sometimes childishly liberating, conjuring up Fo, Harpo Marx, and Danny Kaye in his double-talk mode.
Rothstein wrote an essay for the New York Times.
Rothstein wrote an essay for Newsweek.
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After Reed published Active Faith and said friendly things about pro-choicer Colin Powell, Comrade Dobson wrote him a seven-page letter condemning his soft politics.
Reed extended a published story called Active Faith saying friendly things about Colin Powell despite his stance on being pro-choice, and this lead to backlash from James Dobson condemning his soft politics in a seven-page letter.
The soft politics of Reed is acceptable to the far-right pro-life group of voters.
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Those seminal early papers were crisp and minimalist; they looked forward with remarkable prescience to the wild and woolly, out-of-control world of modern international macroeconomics.
The seminal early papers were minimalist and crisp.
The papers were unorganized and complicated.
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Knowledge is a violent, bright, hot thing, but you would never know that watching Moyers, says Laurence Jarvik, author of Behind the Screen and a Moyers critic.
Laurence Jarvik is an author and critic.
Laurence Jarvik is a staunch supporter of Moyers'.
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Time deems the book definitive but too Morris struggles for fairness but portrays Luce as a calculating, self-indulgent user whose fixed eye on the main chance rendered her oblivious to the concerns of others.
Luce is portrayed as a calculating, self-indulgent user.
Luce is portrayed as selfless and doesn't think about his actions.
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Bettelheim was criticized for reductive psychoanalytic thinking and applauded for his resistance to psychoanalytic dogma.
People thought negatively of Bettelheim for reductive psychoanalytic thought.
People praised Bettelheim for reductive psycoanalytic thinking.
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Slate 's general implication is that I capitalize on the uncredited labors of others.
Slate believes that I am acting unethically in my work.
Slate sees nothing wrong with using the uncredited work of other people.
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Alfred C. A Public/Private Life , by James H. Jones (Norton).
James H. Jones wrote A Public/Private Life.
A Public/Private Life was written by an unknown author.
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plain tastelessness (Richard Bernstein, the New York Times ). Newsweek 's Jeff Giles says Carcaterra is one of the most intriguing writers around, with or without his books.
Giles writes for Newsweek.
Giles writes for Time.
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Hold nude poetry readings by Germaine Greer, Betty Friedan, and Bill Baird (the abortion-rights advocate, not the famed puppeteer--who, by the way, has currently found work moving Annette Funicello's mouth).
Bill Baird is a known abortion rights advocate.
The puppeteer Bill Baird is currently looking for work.
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published about horse fever and keeping the drainfree below the rainspout and putting a little
Published about horses and proper cleaning methods.
Published about chicken disease and caring for birds.
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Che A Revolutionary Life , by Jon Lee Anderson (Grove Press).
Jon Lee Anderson is the author of Che A Revolutionary Life.
Che lead a quiet, ordinary life.
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Rothschild's lack of familiarity with evolutionary theory may not be obvious to uninformed readers--his book bristles with ostentatious footnotes and seemingly learned references.
Rothschild's lack of familiarity with evolutionary theory may not be obvious to uninformed readers
Rothschild's lack of familiarity with evolutionary theory is pretty obvious to uninformed readers
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Alfred Wainwright, prominent fell walker and writer, was curator here for many years.
Alfred Wainwright was famous for his writing
Alfred Wainwright fell into obscurity after his first book was rejected.
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Cohen has written a book that he undoubtedly believes extols heroes and explains a suppressed bit of Jewish history, but what he has done is expose the architecture of his own pathology.
Cohen authored a book related to history.
Cohen has only ever written for a magazine.
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What critics like most about novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux's new work of fiction--about a British family in Hong Kong as the Chinese government takes back control--comes less from the novelist than the travel writer.
Paul Theroux's new work of fiction is set in Hong Kong.
In Paul Theroux's new book, the Chinese government relinquish control of Hong Kong.
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Henry James complained to Sarah Orne Jewett in a letter of 1904 that the historical novel had a fatal cheapness.
Henry James was upset with Sarah Orne Jewett as he believed that the novel had bad qualities.
Henry loved the entire Historical Novel and believed it would be a great success.
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just depending well some authors i can just you know basically drink in but others i really do have to work at them and then um whether you know they're a foreign author or whatever
I really love some authors.
I have never really loved a certain author.
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I confess I've never had the subject of a piece try to replace me as author, but I figured it was up to the editors; so I gave Morris my editor's number.
This was the first time I've ever been fired,
The editors appreciate my work and want me to continue as an author.
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A history of mad-cow disease by veteran science writer Richard Rhodes ( The Making of the Atomic Bomb ). Critics praise Rhodes' lucid explication of complex virology as well as his range--the book includes digressions on political and literary themes and a section on the scandal surrounding a Nobel Prize-winning expert on the disease who recently pleaded guilty to molesting a little boy.
Critics appreciated the book of the scientist Richard Rhodes, which succeeded in explaining very carefully the mad-cow disease and other digressions.
Critics hated the book of the historian Richard Rhodes, which failed to explain very carefully the mad-cow disease and other digressions.
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William Shawn's indispensability as an editor is amply manifest in Ross' memoir.
Ross' memoir speaks highly of William Shawn's editorial skills.
Ross has a negative opinion of William Shawn.
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David Boaz has written a more stimulating, more consistent, and more dogmatic book.
A book was written by David Boaz.
David Boaz did not write any books.
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Also in the New Republic , Robert Boyers offers some unwonted negative words for Philip Roth's American Pastoral, saying the book caricatures 1960s radicalism.
Robert Boyers was not a huge fan of Philip Roth's book.
Robert Boyers praised Philip Roth's book and gave it critical acclaim.
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If slightness in a Library of America volume is a mark of esteem, Kerr can be assured that the two svelte books she reviewed, at under a thousand pages each, accord Gertrude Stein a measure of honor beyond mere inclusion in the series.
The two books reviewed had fewer than a thousand pages each.
The two books were over a thousand pages each.
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How characteristically American, wrote Lionel Trilling of Sexual
Mr. Trilling wrote that it was very characteristic of America.
He wrote that it was totally uncharacteristic of America.
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8. Various works of Ayn Rand
Multiple texts authored by Ayn Rand
Johnny Depp's various works
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Writing in the New York Review of Books , Luc Sante defends DeLillo against the perennial charge that his novels are Large thematic strokes may define his architecture, but within lies continual surprise at the fluidity and resilience of the human condition.
Some critics believe that his novels are large thematic strokes.
There is no mention of DeLillo in the New York Review of Books.
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Like Macdonald's fictitious scientist, it is uncomfortable with abstractions.
Macdonald's fictitious scientist is uncomfortable with abstractions.
Macdonald's scientist is a real world example of someone who dislikes abstractions in the realm of natural scientific inquiry.
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He doesn't just write about teen-age hackers, he tracks a pimply member of the species down to his Bethesda home where a software company is signing him to a contract.
He writes about hackers.
He is not luring them toward it and then trapping the children at his home in Bethesda.
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After an admiring review of Grizzard's wit, the author turns on the writer for peddling a nostalgic vision of a homogeneous pre-integration Grizzard's idealized South was the world before feminists and affirmative action, when gays stayed in the closet where they belonged, where America pretty much meant the world of small-town white folks like him.
Gays used to stay in the closet, where, it was believed, they belonged.
Grizzard never wrote anything.
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A children's book was recently published in France based on excerpts from the works of the even trendier and more arcane Gilles Deleuze, the late French philosopher and celebrated author of Anti-Oedipus . The author is Jacqueline Duhame, a former model for Henri Matisse and pal of Paul Eluard, Pablo Picasso, and Raymond Queneau.
There was a children's book published in France, based on the works of Gilles Deleuze.
In France, it is illegal to publish children's books, which explains why the book based on the works of Gilles Deleuze, was instead released in Italy.
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For example, it says that I'd discovered that a third of the early entries written by staff researchers had ripped off other reference works.
Over a 33% of the early entries written were copied from other works.
These early entries were all completely original with no references and no plagiarism.
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No less than John Updike (in The New Yorker 's fiction issue) proclaims the screenwriter-architect's first novel a Tiger Woodsian debut.
It was the screenwriter-architects first ever novel.
The screenwriter-architect has written several other articles before he wrote this one.
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Panning Mason & Dixon, the New Republic 's James Wood declares Thomas Pynchon's penchant for allegory tiresome and his alleged cleverness to be overwrought and heavy-handed.
James Wood says the allegory gets old and hard to read.
James Wood says the allegory is fun to read.
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While Los Angeles aims an occasional rhetorical jab at the left, Rieff's second book on Miami, The Exile , was an act of defiant apostasy, sympathetic to the Cuban emigres' sufferings and aspirations, and contemptuous of the Castro regime.
Rieff wrote two books about Miami.
Rieff had not yet been published.
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have you ever read any Dean Koontz
Have you read anything by Dean Koontz?
I don't know who Dean Koontz is.
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A Beautiful Mind , by Sylvia Nasar (Simon & Schuster).
Sylvia Nasar is the author of A Beautiful Mind.
Sylvia Nasar hasn't published any manuscripts.
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In Black Ethnic Succession in Organized Crime (1974), Francis A.J.
Francis wrote about organized crime.
Francis wrote about animal cruelty.
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Some critics praise his insight into the dark nature of American business and his riffs on subjects from chemotherapy to free markets.
His views on many subjects draw good reviews.
Not one critic agrees with his work.
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I know nothing about psychometrics, wrote Leon Wieseltier (who was otherwise quite critical) in a typical disclaimer.
Leon Wieseltier said that he knows nothing about psychometrics.
Wieseltier said that he is a leading authority on psychometrics.
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Because his theoretical debt to Michel Foucault and his unabashedly political intentions marked him as an avatar of the emerging academic left, a lot of the criticism came from traditional scholars.
Many traditional scholars were critical of him as the result of his political intentions and his debt to Michel Foucault.
He was not associated with the emerging academic left.
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um-hum i've heard again i'm not familiar with reading him but i've heard of him
I have heard of him, but never read his work.
I have never heard of him.
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Which brings to mind a line from Fay Weldon's 1989 novel, The Cloning of Joanna May . These days scientists talk a great deal more about God than does the rest of the world, she writes.
The author of the 1989 novel titled "The Cloning of Joanna May" is Fay Weldon.
The author of the 1989 novel titled "The Cloning of Joanna May" is Jay Sheldon.
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Wilson uses his knowledge of insects to explain human culture and 2) for excerpts from and information about Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works . You can also read Pinker's dialogue on Evolution and the Brain with sociologist Alan Wolfe in Slate , his debate with biologist Steven Rose in Edge , or a .
Wilson has knowledge of insects.
Wilson does not have any knowledge of insects.
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When Cohen is not imagining history, he rewrites other people's research, sometimes mangling quotes during his copying, as he did when he took a quote from a 1951 book, Murder, Inc.: The Story of the Syndicate , by , also about Jewish gangsters.
Murder Inc is also about gangsters who are Jewish.
Jewish gangsters appear in the movie Murder Inc.
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This is isn't simply reading the Great Books chosen by Chicago's legendary President Robert Maynard Hutchins and his sidekick Mortimer Adler.
We are doing much more than reading the books chosen by Mr Hutchin and his side kick Mortimer Adler.
This sin't anything more than reading the great books chosen by Chicago's legendary.
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In the New York Review of Books , Tatyana Tolstaya praises David Remnick, author of Resurrection, a book about post-Communist Russia, as a satirist of Gogolian persuasion; he combines the grotesque with the lyrical.
David Remnick is praised for combining the lyrical with the grotesque.
Tatyana Tolstaya admonishes David Remnick for his style of writing.
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Popular history need not come at the expense of thoughtful reflection and serious research, but Johnson's zingers are too often substitutes for those qualities.
Johnson often substitutes jokes for thoughtful reflection and research.
Johnson is unaware of any historical policies.
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Author of over 250 books and a prolific artist and art collector, he is perhaps best remembered as a social theorist; in this century many prominent figures, including Mahatma Gandhi, have been inspired by his writings.
Mahatma Gandhi was inspired by his writings.
He was not a writer or an artist.
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I wonder if you think this kind of archaeology could happen again--to one of us nice mid-list novelists in, say, the year 2039--or whether that possibility has been blockbustered, conglomerized, and Barnes and; Noble'd right out of existence.
Barnes and Noble might put mid-list novelists out of existence.
Barnes and Noble will not put mid-list novelists out of existence.
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And while Lewis believes Said to be motivated by a crude anti-Western leftist animus, Ahmad finds him altogether too enamored of the canons of European literature and avers that Said possesses a very conservative mind, essentially Tory in its structure.
Said was very fond of European literature.
Said is a firm believer of American Democracy.
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I am generally a fan of Michael Kinsley's, but I must take issue with his recent article, Social From Ponzi Scheme to Shell Game.
Michael Kinsley's latest article raises some issues within me.
I loved everything about Michael Kinsley's newest article.
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Here's the way one investment industry correspondent--who prefers to be nameless--put it to me.
The author talked to an investment industry correspondent.
The correspondent worked in the religion field.
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In addition to laying the groundwork for post-colonial studies as an area of inquiry, the book inspired a flurry of scholarship devoted to the other--to groups of people who, by virtue of race, gender, sexuality, or geographical location, are unable to represent themselves and so (to echo the line from Karl Marx that serves as the book's epigraph) must be represented by those more powerful.
There are people who are unable to represent themselves.
The book does not mention anything related to Karl Marx.
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Neither Simon nor Lyons likes Irish playwright Sebastian Barry's work ( Steward is one of five dramas about his own kinfolk), however.
Simon and Lyons do not like Barry's work.
Both Simon and Lyons like Barry's work.
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As an example of her broad appeal, she is the all-time bestselling author in France, with over 40 million copies sold in French (as of 2003) versus 22 million for Emile Zola, the nearest contender.
She has sold almost double the amount of novels in French as the second most popular author.
No one in France has any interest in reading her novels.
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In Slate, Brent Staples finds that the novel's absence of workaday and historical detail keeps the reader at a distance; many of Morrison's characters are impenetrable to the mind's eye.
Brent Staples thinks that readers are kept at a distance because of the novel's lack of workaday and historical detail.
Brent Staples believes that the novel's absence of workaday and historical detail keeps the reader extremely close.
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In the late '70s three people independently wrote up that the Norwegian economist Victor Norman, Lancaster himself, and yours truly; and the new trade theory was born.
Victor Norman was a Norwegian economist.
Victor Norman was a Brazilian economist.
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In the New York Review of Books , Nobel laureate Derek Walcott writes an effusion over his fellow Caribbean writer Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco.
Derek Walcott and Patrick Chamoiseau have both spent time in the Caribbean.
Patrick Chamoiseau refused an offer to write an article for the New York Review of Books.
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The 800-page biography puts forth no new theories on the poet or on his times as it retells the juicy bits of his life.
The biography has 800 pages.
The biography is short, with only 100 pages.
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for the writing as well as for the science, says Mark Ridley in the New York Times Book Review . But some also use the occasion to take evolutionary psychology to [I]t wants to explain too much, too easily (Jim Holt, the Wall Street Journal ).
Mark Ridley has done some writing for the New York Times Book Review.
Jim Holt did not read Mark Ridley's work in the New York Times Book Review.
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Author J. Randy Taraborrelli has been somewhat cagey, but early reports suggest that the book will be full of salacious details about Frank's seven-year affair with Monroe, other extracurricular activities, and an aborted Mob hit on him.
Author J. Randy Taraborrelli has been cautious to share details about his forthcoming book.
J. Randy Taraborrelli has openly shared spoilers for his new book.
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There is a very simple reason why George Stephanopoulos' book contract is less tainting (or less obviously so, anyway) than Gennifer Flowers' or the Arkansas troopers' lining up for tabloid/right-wing payouts.
George Stephanopoulous's book is taken more seriously than others.
George Stephanopoulous's book is considered fiction.
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Think of William Faulkner, whose characters often appear and reappear in his various novels and stories.
Faulkner has his characters disappear and reappear in his books.
Faulkner uses the same two characters in all his novels.
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His evocation of Hong Kong is full of sharp observations--on subjects ranging from politics to food to sex to servitude (Dwight Garner, Newsday ). But his protagonist, a misanthropic businessman named Neville Bunt Mullard, is deemed poorly drawn.
His evocation of hong kong is full of sharp observations on a variety of subjects.
His evocation of hong kong is not full of sharp observations on a variety of subjects it's very narrow.
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Wilde himself was endlessly transgressive, always finding a new way to jab Victorian complacency.
Wilde was subversive, constantly working against Victorian complacency.
Wilde was a proponent of the Victorian way of life.
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(The prodigious James Wood, the most gifted literary critic of his generation, springs to mind.)
At first thought, I think of the famous literary critic James Wood.
The worst critic is history, James Wood, come to mind.
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he's got several out that i like and uh matter fact
I like several of his works that are currently out.
I tried several of his works, but I did not like a single one.
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and he he writes the same thing though it's that real gruesome horror stories yeah
He writes real gruesome horror stories.
He only writes about nice, happy things.
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The Czech expat's second novel written in French causes some reviewers to proclaim his decline.
Second novel written in French by the Czech expat caused some reviewers to proclaim his decline.
Czech expat never wrote a second novel written in french.
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Cities of the Plain , by Cormac McCarthy (Knopf).
Cormac McCarthy wrote Cities by the Plain.
Cormac McCarthy was a television actor.
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Rothko's triumphantly tragic career resembles what Robert Lowell called the generic life of his own generation of poets.
Rothko had a tragic career.
Rothko never had any tragedy to deal with.
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If you missed the links in the article, click to read about an amateur historian's account of Wittgenstein's influence on Hitler and to read about the strange world of Hitler Studies.
Wittgenstein influenced Hitler according to the historian's account.
The amateur historian made no reference to Wittgenstein in his account.
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But Robert Pinsky--also poetry editor of
Robert Pinsky is a poetry editor too.
Robert Pinsky is an art editor too.
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Now that I've said my piece on behalf of the New Deal, I can admit to having found Cook's prose clear and readable but not especially memorable.
I found cook's speech incredibly clear and readable, but fairly boring and unmemorable.
Cook's writing was very memorable but difficult to read.
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Eliot's anti-Semitism--has hired its first poet-in-residence.
The poet works and lives there.
No one ever got paid to write poetry.
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Let Ronin Ro, whose book, Gangsta , comes out next month, Horror-core, he writes, was to hip-hop what death metal is to Brahms or Mozart.
Let Ronin Ro wrote Gangsta.
Let Ronin Ro did not write Gangsta.
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Some condemn the novel, in which an arrogant barrister who defends rogues is murdered, for its cliched depiction of lawyering and its unconvincingly tidy ending.
Some people condemn the novel because it is predictable.
Some people condemn the novel because it is too strange.
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I never looked at my records, he admitted about the writing of his classic.
He admitted about the writing of his classic.
I looked at my records and he did not admit about the writing of his classic.
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For Rothko, too, there were the years of apprenticeship, the hard-won discovery of a classic but ultimately restrictive format (Rothko's stacked rectangles are not unlike Lowell's sonnets and John Berryman's dream songs), the succession of wives, the acclaim, and the descent into alcohol, paranoia, depression, and suicide.
Rothko's life took a somewhat cliched path.
Rothko died when he was a baby.
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The early works of Sean O'Casey and John Synge were written for the Abbey.
O'Casey wrote his works for the Abbey.
O'Casey didn't like the Abbey.
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They like that Birthday Letters combines Hughes' trademark violence--dying animals, stormy moors--with his compassion for Plath and introspection.
Hughes demonstrates both violence and compassion in his work
Hughes only expresses compassion in his work, not violence.
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James BeauSeigneur, a premill from Rockville, Md., has written a fictional trilogy dramatizing the End Times.
James BeauSeigneur has written three works on the End Times.
James BeauSeigneur has written a fictional duo on the End Times.
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who's the who's the author
Who is the author?
Who's the illustrator?
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He is also planning lecture tours and shopping a memoir.
He is planning tours and a memoir.
He has no further plans for tours and writing.
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Lest one think I'm exaggerating Katz's martyr complex, check out Virtuous Reality 's Chapter 7, in which he chronicles the life and times of another political rebel who embraced a new technology to speak truth to power and suffered greatly for Thomas Paine.
Katz suffers from a martyr complex in Virtuous Reality.
Chapter 7 chronicles the life of a professional sportsman.
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he wrote he's the one who wrote uh Red October A Hunt for Red October
He wrote Red October.
He never wrote it.
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Britain's Poet Laureate Andrew Motion has dubbed Bob Dylan's Visions of Johanna the best song lyrics ever written.
Andrew Motion has a very high opinion of the lyrics of Bob Dylan's Visions of Johanna.
Andrew Motion has no opinion on which song lyrics are the best ever.
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But I don't want to make too much of my complaints, given that, in my little circle of friends, no error or misjudgment on Roth's part appears to have inhibited anyone's desire to subject American Pastoral to analytic vivisection.
I do not have a very large circle of friends.
I am friends with every single person who has ever stepped foot on the planet.
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This strenuous ambition was confounded by a perfectionism that, as Ellison wrote in the introduction to his volume of essays Shadow and Act , made it somewhat unreal to even think of himself as a writer.
His perfectionism affected his work as a writer.
Ellison wrote about his perfectionism in the last chapter of his volume.
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The term slice of life has come to mean dreary naturalism, but for the superb Richard LaGravenese, who wrote and directed Living Out Loud , that slice includes fantasy, fairy tale connections, sultry musical interludes, bridges that lead out, and bridges that lead nowhere.
Richard LaGravenes wrote and directed Living Out Loud.
Richard LaGravenes did not write Living Out Loud.
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Whether the shift from Hildy Johnson to Abe Rosenthal was a good or bad thing, it must be noted that not even Rosenthal's most passionate detractors have ever accused him of being a fictional character or of writing a sentence like Crushing all Chechen resistance, Russian troops made their dreamy, romantic, and elegant way to the outskirts of Grozny.
Grozny outskirts we're passed by the Russian troops.
The Chechen resistance destroyed the Russian army at Grozny.
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