In his wide-ranging, technically daring story collection, "The Surf Guru," no occupation is too offbeat for Doug Dorst.
Nabokov's daring story has confounded book designers from the beginning: the cover of the first edition, published in 1955, was solid green.
In the book's most daring story, a boy from Pakistan working in a barber's shop and selling mobile phones, one of an exploited workforce of immigrants whose lives are contained by their lodging-house and their Muslim community, falls in love with a fellow-worker.
Then I read a daring story about two teenagers with cancer who didn't have many options.
The tagline for the Universe cover was "[His] most daring story"; its sensitive treatment of homosexuality was unusual for science fiction published at that time, and it is now regarded as a milestone in science fiction's portrayal of homosexuality.
The indie space continues to be a place to mount studio-level movies that are often daring, intelligent stories made for lower budgets, and the results can be impressive.
At its inception 30 years ago, the Sundance Film Festival was dedicated to low-budget films made outside the studio system, a celebration of fresh cinematic voices telling daring, imaginative stories.
She later adopted the pen name Françoise Mallet-Joris, and at age 19 she won unanimous critical approval with her novel Le Rempart des béguines (1951; The Illusionist, also published as Into the Labyrinth and The Loving and the Daring), the story of an affair between a girl and her father's mistress, described with clinical detachment in a sober, classical prose.
And there's always room to blame the media, for daring to report the story.
Rarely in modern times has a novelist found the voice to tell his people the daring, possibly transgressive, stories about themselves that they crave.
