[Newspoetry] GREAT MOMENTS IN HOMELAND SECURITY

[C. G. Estabrook]

It's common among my students at UIUC in recent years to refer to any long
book by a single author as a novel.  It is perfectly good undergraduate
English to say, "I could have went to the library and got that French
guy's novel, Democracy in America."  --CGE


On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Mike Lehman wrote:

> BRITISH NOVELIST IAN McEwan, who was denied entry to the US for 36 hours 
> and underwent three interrogations, was asked by one keen-witted 
> Homeland Security official: "What kind of novels do you write: fiction 
> or nonfiction?"
> 
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