"The Gathering" still casts fiction's spell, but its detours from reality are surreal, not unreal: nothing happens that could not happen, that has not happened, to somebody.
Confession has long been a form in which fiction is cast.
A judicious edit would have made The Artist, The Philosopher and The Warrior a readable, though average, work of popular history; only a bold decision to cast it as fiction could have transformed it into something worthy of its gifted author.
If fiction casts a spell, essays exert a complicity, one that the writer must protect.
And what a terrific piece of meta-casting to have fiction's most famous abuser of the coca leaf played by Robert Downey Jr in Guy Ritchie's 2009 Sherlock Holmes.
It is tempting to suspect that such a neatly phrased, have-it-all-ways arrangement is more to do with casting than with fiction.
Diane Kruger is set to join the cast of science-fiction film The Host, based on the novel by Twilight author Stephenie Meyer, which posits a world where aliens have taken over human bodies.
(Scott)20110616 ★ 'The Lips' (No rating, 1 40, in Spanish) Shadowing three government social workers (perfectly embodied by Victoria Raposo, Eva Bianco and Adela Sanchez) on a trip deep into the impoverished Argentine countryside, this affecting merger of fact and fiction casts a spell far greater than its modest narrative.
In a way, their refusal to give a prize for fiction casts a pall over the entire non-genre fiction landscape and is an insult to the many wonderful authors who provide eager readers with pleasure, insight, and an essential look into a parallel world that serves to enhance a greater understanding of the human condition.
The speakers of spinoff fiction may cast themselves as maids, slaves, wives or amanuenses, tied to some historical or political moment.
