There is little point in writing a book unless one can offer a distinctive perspective, perhaps even some novel speculations.
It's almost as if Plante couldn't fully entrust the novel's speculation to its characters, which may be why the final catharsis feels unsatisfactory.
He started writing the novel, on speculation, and DC Comics eventually agreed to the project, allowing Vachss to take some creative liberties.
In Frank Norris's great novel of derivative speculation The Pit (1903), he refers to the Chicago Board Options Exchange as "a monstrous sphinx with blind eyes, silent, grave".
It is, after all, a novel about financial speculation, in which stock shares are pumped and dumped and greed lures men to their doom.
No plans to go anywhere but I am looking forward to Jenny Offill's slender and smart new novel Dept of Speculation and moving on to volume three – Boyhood Island – of Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle sextet.
In order to validate this speculation, novel FR259647 derivatives 4 9 were designed, calculated, synthesized, and evaluated.
This novel endonuclease allows speculation regarding specificity of monomeric LAGLIDADG proteins, while it supports the evolutionary genesis of these proteins by a gene duplication event.
I thought of Ferrante while reading Jenny Offill's second novel, "Dept. of Speculation" (Knopf).
Krause reminds me of someone who is mentioned in the novel "Dept. of Speculation," by Jenny Offill.
