But for all its jump-cuts and free associations, "Loaded Gun" is like one of those narcissistic essays in which a writer chronicles his difficulties with his subject to show how creative he is.

Lacey Fosburgh, a writer whose books chronicled murder, family passions and mystery in India, died last night at California Pacific Hospital in San Francisco.

A former editor and writer at The Times Magazine chronicles his parents' spiritual journey from Judaism to Catholicism and his own reverse course as an adult.

Past climatic conditions can be estimated to some extent from historical records; 17th-century European writers, for example, chronicled a "little ice age."

A culinary writer chronicles her stormy marriage.

Another writer chronicled the re-emergence of disciplinary identities within an interdisciplinary scheme:

A British writer who had come with Clive around 1740-50 chronicled this event.

One artist involved in root plays is Winsome (code name), a Jamaican writer and producer chronicled in Deborah Thomas' book "Modern Blackness".

In the May issue of Vogue, one 5-foot-6 1/2-inch writer chronicled her odyssey of going from 136 1/2 pounds to 122 pounds to look presentable in the season's style.

A writer for The New Yorker chronicles AIDS in Africa, Emperor Bokassa's trial for cannibalism and Dian Fossey's obsession with gorillas.