SFF is in the grip of its own culture war, with a group of authors suggesting that the recent success of female and non-white writers is proof that political correctness has spread its tentacles so far that it is now ruining stories that include actual tentacles.
As fascinating as I have found Alsop, since I wrote a history of political punditry 20 years ago, I nevertheless found it curious that Mr. Auburn — the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of "Proof" — and the Manhattan Theater Club would think the life of this all-but-forgotten figure might generate enough interest to entice a Broadway audience.
Her completed product was sent on to the writer's editor, who read the marginalia and later brought up selected items with the writer, or just handed the writer the Gould proof, as it was known, and let the writer soak it up.
Weeks earlier, in the "Body of Proof" writers' room in Burbank, Calif., Sunil Nayar, an executive producer, and a team of writers refined a scene that had Hunt conducting an autopsy on someone she had seen once before as a patient, back in her neurosurgery days.
Birrell said the popularity of the writers' festival is proof that despite the proliferation of technology in modern lives, there was still a big hunger for live events.
THE son of a pharmaceutical fortune, Andrew Solomon, a writer, is living proof that money can't buy happiness.
Writer attests to proof of his subject's devotion to friends in the originality of a hymn, written in iambic pentameter for the marriage of mutual friends.
As for calling me "the closest thing around to a mad scientist," the writer provides no proof except the fact that a room had half a floor installed.
To do anything else constituted more than the violation of the privacy of a great writer; it was proof of one's own reprobate soul, the exploitation (a word with which I've grown familiar over the years) of a man so much purer than the false and shallow world around him, an artist who wanted only to be left alone.
He also encouraged a Capitol Fax writer to find proof that he ever suggested across-the-board cuts--which was pretty easy to do since he pitched it during a televised debate (among other places).
