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The article talks about a study conducted on sixty-six kindergarten students from Boston who were presented with religious, fantastical, and realistic stories and instructed to decide between them being fact or fiction. Topics discussed include female Hollywood actors who have children in their 40s and 50s, the question of whether exposing children to religion puts them at a disadvantage, and the authors conviction that she will continue telling children religious stories.

The article discusses the 2013 reissue of the novel "The Prince" by R.M. Koster first published in 1972. Information is provided on the plot of the book, which was inspired by the political aspects of Latin America and especially Panama. Biographical information on Koster in provided, covering his childhood in Brooklyn, New York, service with the U.S. military, and relocation to Panama. His use of humor and realism in his literary style is also covered.

The author discusses the influence of radio host Howard Stern on his literary style due to Stern's realism effect to audience or listeners.

The author discusses the use of aposiopesis in literature, or the breaking off of speech, discussing how using fragmented sentences can more accurately reflect a character's thought process and improve literary realism, as well as poet Virgil's use of the device in his poem "The Aeneid."

The article focuses on the lecture given by Sapphire, author of "Push," a New York Times bestseller, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) Union Wisconsin Room. It says that the lecture, "When Push Comes to Precious: the Novel, the Film, the Reality," addressed the backlash surrounding the movie adaptation of the book "Precious." It notes that she cites the history of forced incest upon women during slavery.

Discusses the concept of unadorned truth and realism in the dramatic work of Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, and reviews two performances of their plays in New York City. Sense of comfort which can be drawn from these playwrights' honest depictions of reality; Comment that their work destroys false piety; Performance of Ibsen's 'Hedda Gabler' at the Ambassador Theater; Performance of Strindberg's 'Dance of Death' at the Broadhurst Theater.

Presents a humorous essay on the interplay of real life and fiction, part of a series of essays included in the book 'Writers on Writing.' Personal anecdotes of pilfering from news headlines to embellish plots of novels; Inspiration for the story line of the author's book 'Strip Tease;' Ironic comment that the real tragedy of Elian Gonzalez was plagiarized from fictional novels.

The article discusses a paper by Joan Burbick, an associate professor of English at Washington State University, about Henry David Thoreau's attempt and failure to combine fact and symbol in "Cape Cod." She suggests that Thoreau created a book of forceful irony by putting his own narrative in a context that raises doubts about the ability of anyone to describe a place accurately. Burbick presented the paper at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association.