I've overtly set some of my books and stories in Massachusetts, which is a place I also know and I've lived in, but I never really referred to Rhode Island specifically, I believe, until this book.
"So, while we haven't overtly set it in the '60s, we certainly wanted to create a world that felt true to the time in which the book was written," he said.
While there is a place for trained armed volunteers in schools, alone this step is drastically insufficient and must not be framed in an overtly military setting.
Union Atlantic was a more overtly topical story set in the corrupt banking and military world of the US after 9/11, told in rougher prose.
This play, one of that pre-eminent living Irish dramatist's more overtly political works, is set in Derry, Northern Ireland, in the aftermath of a civil rights meeting that resulted in three unarmed protesters being shot by British soldiers.
Mostly, though, his music is vocal or choral, and although the texts are not always overtly religious -- he has set poetry of William Blake and Sappho, for example -- his music tends to cast them in devotional light.
"So far there's no overtly genre content: it's set in the present day and has no alternate reality or anything like that".
An overtly mystical, triple-layered narrative set in the present, the cosmic future and 16th-century central America, The Fountain was booed in Venice and derided by the press – the film-trade magazine Variety dubbing it a "hippy trippy space odyssey meets contempo weepie meets conquistador caper".
In his most overtly political novel, Snow (2002), set in the town of Kars on Turkey's north-east border with Georgia and Armenia in the 1990s, as civil war rages with secessionist Kurds, militant secularists stage a coup against rising political Islamists.
In a March 2010 interview with the Guardian newspaper, Chabon added that "So far there's no overtly genre content: it's set in the present day and has no alternate reality or anything like that".
"Cake" offers a slightly wider array of emotions and contexts; "Still Alice," which stays limited to its overtly intellectual setting, packs it with unsubtle ironies.
