Read more fiction stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/2950/fiction.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 6:57:48 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74522/new-books-do-carver-justice.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTwo new books on Raymond Carver—a biography and a collection of stories—bring a "welcome and necessary corrective" to what we know of the short story master, writes Stephen King. Carol Sklenicka's A Writer's Life cuts Carver too much slack for his personal life—he was a "sometimes dangerous"...http://www.newser.com/story/74522/new-books-do-carver-justice.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 21 Nov 2009 10:16:36 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73381/beck-pulls-an-oprah-pushing-thriller-writers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOprah's book club used to stand alone in its power to boost authors' sales and profiles. Then came Glenn Beck. The conservative Fox News pundit has endorsed dozens of novels and regularly hosts fiction writers on his show, a rare habit among talk show hosts. But unlike Oprah, Beck singles...http://www.newser.com/story/73381/beck-pulls-an-oprah-pushing-thriller-writers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 05 Nov 2009 7:43:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/69928/ralph-nader-pens-odd-utopian-novel.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRalph Nader, the consumer advocate and sometime presidential candidate, has written his first novel, the New Yorker reports. Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us! , out tomorrow, is a “practical utopia” in which real-life characters undertake a fictional quest to—progressively—save the country. Over the course of its 736 pages,...http://www.newser.com/story/69928/ralph-nader-pens-odd-utopian-novel.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 21 Sep 2009 18:52:36 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65752/this-is-your-best-shot-to-finish-a-pynchon-novel.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThomas Pynchon's back with what appears to be his most accessible novel yet, in the unlikely category of detective fiction. Critics reviewing Inherent Vice say he pulled it off: Laura Miller, Salon: It's "a sun-struck, pot-addled shaggy dog story that fuses the sulky skepticism of Raymond Chandler with the good-natured...http://www.newser.com/story/65752/this-is-your-best-shot-to-finish-a-pynchon-novel.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 31 Jul 2009 13:10:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65258/black-gay-lit-trailblazer-e-lynn-harris-dead-at-54.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAuthor E. Lynn Harris, who offered a glimpse into the secret lives of closeted gay black men, died last night at 54, the AP reports. His publicist says the cause is unknown, and that Harris suddenly took ill just days ago. An autopsy will be performed next week. Harris was...http://www.newser.com/story/65258/black-gay-lit-trailblazer-e-lynn-harris-dead-at-54.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 24 Jul 2009 16:17:04 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64689/jack-vance-unsung-giant-of-us-fiction.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn American literary giant has been crafting violent, poetic, psychologically complex novels for decades. Trouble is, his characters inhabit rocket ships and battle lizard creatures. "Jack Vance is the most painful case of all the writers I love who I feel don’t get the credit they deserve," says writer Michael...http://www.newser.com/story/64689/jack-vance-unsung-giant-of-us-fiction.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 17 Jul 2009 20:10:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60575/jd-salinger-moves-to-block-sequel-to-catcher-in-rye.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLawyers for the famously reclusive author JD Salinger are considering legal action to block an unauthorized sequel to his classic The Catcher in the Rye, reports the Telegraph. The new novel, by a Swedish-American named John David California, is titled 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye. It follows the...http://www.newser.com/story/60575/jd-salinger-moves-to-block-sequel-to-catcher-in-rye.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 31 May 2009 4:49:21 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56452/zombies-work-in-latest-jane-austen-spinoff.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPride and Prejudice and Zombies has been so well received that one must question “why these silly, campy things work so well,” Monica Hesse writes in the Washington Post . She suggests that it’s not simply because Jane Austen and vampires sell—as the author of the forthcoming Jane Bites Back...http://www.newser.com/story/56452/zombies-work-in-latest-jane-austen-spinoff.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 17 Apr 2009 12:59:12 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/52204/in-life-and-last-novel-wallace-sought-adult-sanity.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDavid Foster Wallace declared war on depression and addiction in writing his last, unfinished novel, D. T. Max writes in the New Yorker . The writer's suicide by hanging last year was the culmination of a struggle to live normally, to achieve what he called “adult sanity," without antidepressants or the...http://www.newser.com/story/52204/in-life-and-last-novel-wallace-sought-adult-sanity.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 02 Mar 2009 19:01:40 CST