Who are good candidates for reasonably being labelled "The Brazilian Shakespeare"?
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posted by Bwithh
on Feb 21, 2012 -
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Need recommendations for a good literary short story (or two) on which to write a 1200-1500ish word paper.
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posted by Gymnopedist
on Jan 28, 2012 -
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I have a very narrow taste in fiction, and I'm running out authors. Overall, I like
how things are written more than what they say. But even given that, I'm terribly picky. Help me find more authors to love!
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posted by hopeless romantique
on Sep 3, 2010 -
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Please help me remember the title and author of a short story I read maybe 15 years ago. A handicapped woman, living with her sister and her sister's family, sees a man in church she feels quite sure is the devil. In order to get away from him, she struggles to regain the physical independence she had given up. (She had gone into a wheelchair because walking was possible, but too painful.) She does manage to become self-sufficient enough to move out on her own--and then wonders if it was worth it, after all. I am almost sure the author was Italian. Can anyone help?
posted by uans
on Nov 16, 2009 -
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My uncle recently mentioned to me that he's never read any book written by a woman. Apparently this is because he doesn't think they'll be any good - he seems to think women can only write romance novels. I find this both horrific and hard to believe, but he seemed serious. So, Hive Mind, I need your help in drafting a list of the very best books written by female authors. Help me teach him the error of his ways!
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posted by badmoonrising
on Jul 29, 2009 -
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Say I'm writing a story and I want to emulate the old practice of referring to proper nouns by initials: i.e. Dr. M— from the town of S—. Where and when did this start? Why did they do this? (It hides the person's name, but from the author's perspective, is it to give his story an air of veracity, as with Defoe and Cervantes's works?) Would some names remain hidden and others not? Do I hide the last name only? If a man came from Monte Cristo, would I write M— C— or simply M—? I want as much information on this as possible. The name of this practice, if there is one, might be useful.
posted by Busoni
on Apr 7, 2009 -
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Are there any reasonably well-known (or even famous) writers who are truly multi-genre?
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posted by wackybrit
on Nov 10, 2008 -
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ProseFilter: Nabokov's
Lolita was once hailed as "a love letter to the English language." I'm looking for modern and contemporary authors with similar aspirations.
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posted by zoomorphic
on Sep 12, 2008 -
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What literature is written about Spain or the experience of living in Spain by American authors?
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posted by mizrachi
on Apr 6, 2008 -
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Help me to let go of my bias against women's fiction. What fiction books written by women would a "real" man like?
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posted by Xurando
on Feb 13, 2007 -
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I'm trying to get into reading again, and am looking for fiction authors who write well-defined characters and seem genuinely to like people.
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posted by Tuwa
on Mar 26, 2005 -
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