Cubist portraits, drawings for Guernica, and savage dream paintings.
Ultimately, the answers to these questions may lie in looking at what the "American Dream" has brought us, an often savage dream in which corporate publishers have participated and into which Amazon, now more than ever, has entered.
In "Savage Dreams," Ms. Solnit discussed her decision to concentrate on Lake Tenaya.
Her own history with the lake goes back a dozen years, to a time when she was working on her 1994 book, "Savage Dreams: A Journey Into the Landscape Wars of the American West".
Another acquaintance was poet and author Neeli Cherkovski, who says Savage dreamed of becoming a stand-up comic in the mold of Lenny Bruce.
After the stark social realism of Saved, Bond had moved straight on to a savage satirical dream play, Early Morning, in which Queen Victoria has a lesbian affair with Florence Nightingale, and the princes Arthur and George are locked together as conjoined twins.
Several supplements to the original boxed set were released under the first edition rules, including FR1 Waterdeep and the North and FR2 Moonshae in 1987, and FR3 Empires of the Sands, FR4 The Magister, FR5 The Savage Frontier, FR6 Dreams of the Red Wizards, and REF5 Lords of Darkness in 1988.
"Are you familiar with the term 'molester?' " With that kind of chutzpah, Ms. Handler can go toe to toe — or whatever to whatever — with Chuck Palahniuk, whose "Tell-All" is full of boldface words that become stranger and stranger as he presents an escalatingly loony pipe dream that savages Lillian Hellman and many others.
No one since James Ellroy has conveyed the morally troubled heart of the American dream with such savage aim, and Winslow cleverly adds a pointed political dimension to his saga.
Instead, a new set of controlling norms would inevitably evolve to take the place of the "cleaving only unto her" ideal — norms that would basically ask women to stop "pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man," as Savage puts it, and just accept that boys will be boys.
