As a result, the novelist tends to sense, rather than see, domestic environments, registering the definition of space and not its detail.

And it's funny, a quality literary novelists tend to underrate.

This collection will appeal to those looking for a model of blunt, elegant and unflinching criticism at a time when novelists tend to go rather easy when reviewing their colleagues.

American novelists have tended to shy away from business - maybe because the best of them write what they know, and most don't have much experience behind a desk.

Although serious novelists tend to take a bleak view of their crime settings, they tend to recover their lyrical voices whenever they write from a historical perspective.

Many first novelists tend to write from their own background, and Mr. Hanson is no exception.

- but, as this book sometimes demonstrates, a novelist tends to be at his best when actually writing novels.

Old-fashioned novelists tend to be generous, and "Thanksgiving Night" comes with broad swaths of detail, abundant quirks and lots of human suffering, as well as low-key lyricism.

So it can rankle the 230 million Portuguese speakers that the rest of the world often views their mother tongue as a minor language and that their novelists, poets and songwriters tend to be overlooked.

Although Alan believes, as novelists tend to do, that "irony is the lifeblood of good writing," he's entirely unprepared, as all of us are, to live in irony.