Sunday books: coverage for July 25, 2010.
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The center of the comic universe might be San Diego for this year’s Comic-Con, but once upon a time Matt Groening, the Hernandez brothers and others worked and thrived in Los Angeles.
July 22, 2010
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The Four Fingers of Death A Novel Rick Moody Little, Brown: 730 pp., $25.99 Rick Moody grew up on a nutritious diet of Pynchon, Vonnegut (to whom this book is dedicated), Roth and Updike, some Melville and Hawthorne for New England-style moralizing, a pinch of Carlos Castaneda for spice and a good helping of the Bible (comfort food, the cassava of Western culture).
July 25, 2010
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Poor Lenny Abramov. He’s old (39!) and likes to read. Two strikes against him in the socially and spiritually bankrupt future world created by Gary Shteyngart.
July 25, 2010
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The author of ‘Love Is a Mix Tape’ delivers a book that is at once eloquent about the ‘80s and a bit dopey about them.
July 25, 2010
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The late Chilean author wove complex thematic tapestries. These short stories are bite-sized guides to those longer works.
July 25, 2010
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Eric Jay Dolin looks at how the lust for pelts was a powerful force in shaping the course of American history.
July 25, 2010
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Plus ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future’ by Michael J. Fox and ‘This Time Together’ by Carol Burnett
July 25, 2010
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In Dash Shaw’s graphic novel “Bodyworld,” characters struggle to connect in an American town circa 2060.
July 25, 2010
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A reissue of “The Colossus of Maroussi” chronicles the American writer’s travels around Greece with pal Lawrence Durrell in the grim days of World War II.
July 25, 2010
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