present-tense

The present-tense narration still seems powerful in its immediacy, even though the use of the present tense among current neorealist writers has become something of a commonplace.

Updike, John 2010

Its present-tense narration gives it an immediacy that still seems immediate, while the same strategy in the other, more bloated novels seems increasingly perfunctory (although perhaps this impression is heightened because the present-tense strategy itself eventually came to seem somewhat unexceptional -- an outcome made possible by Updike's prominent use of the strategy in Rabbit, Run).

Updike, John 2010

Ms. Beard's wry take on the perils of adolescence is informed by the self-aware reflections of an adult looking back on childhood but keeps its immediacy by being injected into a present-tense narration.

The Comic-Grotesque Goes North Sam Sacks 2011

The shelves of young-adult literature are filled with angry, depressed, hormone-tossed characters who recount their miseries in urgent, present-tense narration.

Tales for Teens (and Others) Meghan Cox Gurdon 2010

In a present-tense narration of a trip to a county fair, a woman says of her companion: "For a moment, I think you are going to propose to me in front of the fry-bread cart, but you are just tying your shoe."

Gaudy Grossness and Other Stories 2010

Contexts: Reconciling my past as present-tense delays, i.e., AQ's stmt., “authority over one's own story & fictions”

Letters, notes, conversations, partings Ann Bogle 2011

In our present-tense culture, diamond anniversaries tend to get swept away by the whirlwind of current events.

The More Things on the Small Screen Change ... Terry Teachout 2011

Much of the narrative's present-tense feel and its pulpy detail come from newspapers like the Defender, the Indianapolis Recorder and the Houston Informer, which gave the circuit breathless coverage in their entertainment pages.

On the Midnight Special Eddie Dean 2011

The reason I cannot help but incorporate my prior experience of tasting wines into real-time, present-tense tasting is because I am suffering from a condition known as CMDS.

White wine, red wine, the frontal cortex, spooky store – sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

Before the book is done, though, we'll have taken a long strange trip of our own in Andi's company: back and forth between present-tense Andi and past-tense Alexandrine, between contemporary Paris and the filthy, terrorized streets of Robespierre's day, and deep into the clammy, bone-filled catacombs that underlie the city and where, in this imperfect but memorable novel, past and present connect in a frightening, disorienting fashion.

Tales for Teens (and Others) Meghan Cox Gurdon 2010