Although Norman Mailer and James Jones were among writers he regarded as competitors (though he was still teaching composition and doing advertising work when "The Naked and the Dead" and "From Here to Eternity" made their marks), Heller's Rabelaisian excess was not the famous-writer version.
If there's a TV writers' version of Stockholm syndrome, "Dexter" is Exhibit A. In one of the season's more interesting episodes, Dexter went rogue.
Cagney himself usually cited the writers' version, but the fruit's victim, Clarke, agreed that it was Wellman's idea, saying, "I'm sorry I ever agreed to do the grapefruit bit.
Can we celebrate the co-existence of different 'versions' of truth, as the Myth series did, if some writers' versions entail denying other histories, denying other nations, and afterwards denying that systematic persecution took place?
The writer's version, in a series of cartoons with captions, of "A Shropshire Lad".
The writer's version was "totally false", and had been made up "to sell his book".
But in a kind of writer's version of Xeno's Paradox, the finish line, the fullness of Johnson's life, seems almost to be receding as the books "keep ballooning," in McGrath's words, "developing subplots and stories-within-the-story, in a way that reflects Caro's own process of discovery".
Like the writer's version of a no-hitter, "Shelter" is a marvel of skill and execution, tautly constructed and played without mercy.
The novel won three major science fiction awards (the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award), an unprecedented achievement described by the Mail & Guardian as "the sci-fi writer's version of winning the Goncourt, Booker and Pulitzer prizes in the same year".
But what about writers, whose version of work might resemble "il bel far niente," except with a lot less pleasure and a lot more caffeine and pulling out one's hair?
[ image: /photos/590953cd6552fa0be682c825]But what about writers, whose version of work might resemble "il bel far niente," except with a lot less pleasure and a lot more caffeine and pulling out one's hair?
