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Review: Jonathan Franzen's 'Farther Away' wants to bridge distance
Tribune newspapersFarther Away Essays Jonathan Franzen Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 322 pp., $26 I didn't much like Jonathan Franzen's essay "Farther Away" when I read it a year ago in the New Yorker. A complicated mishmash of a piece, it seeks to juxtapose the author'...Tags: Daniel Defoe, Donald Antrim, William Trevor, Jonathan Franzen, Arts and Culture
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Soy candles, soaps and more, made by Made
L.A. at HomeDowntown Women's Center store: The Downtown Women's Center's store Made is expanding its reach, selling soy candles, soaps, travel bags and other handmade gifts not only from its Skid Row storefront but also through Bloomingdales and the Skirball Cultural... -
Book review: 'Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories' by Edith Pearlman
Los Angeles Times Book CriticBinocular Vision New & Selected Stories Edith Pearlman Lookout Books: 374 pp., $18.95 paper I'll confess: I had never heard of Edith Pearlman before reading "Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories," a collection of 34 pieces of her short fiction...Tags: John Updike, Judaism, Armed Conflicts, Human Interest, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Apatow gets funny (mostly) for McSweeney's and 826LA
Jacket CopyJudd Apatow has edited an anthology titled "I Found This Funny," coming out Nov. 1, which benefits 826 National. It's kind of a funny humor anthology because some of its stories aren't funny at all. Yes, it includes pieces by...... -
Discoveries: 'Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries' by Helen Vendler
Special to the Los Angeles TimesDickinson Selected Poems and Commentaries Helen Vendler Harvard University Press: 530 pp., $35 I'm just a regular reader, you say. I read for pleasure. Why should I read the commentaries of critic Helen Vendler on the "epigrammatic, terse, abrupt,...Tags: Education, Robert Motherwell, Harvard University, Poetry, China
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'The Killing' recap: Taking its time
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Philip Roth wins Man Booker International Prize, sparks controversy
Jacket CopyA judge withdraws from the Man Booker International Prize jury when the award goes to Philip Roth. "He goes on and on and on about the same subject in almost every single book," she says. "It's as though he's sitting on your face and you can't breathe."..... -
Astral Weeks: Ted Chiang's mental travelers
Special to the Los Angeles TimesNot a short story, not quite a novella — wasn't that a Britney Spears song? — the oxymoronic long short story is an underemployed literary form. (For argument's sake, let's say the long short story ranges from 30 to 60 pages.) F. Scott...Tags: Hormones and Metabolism, Britney Spears, Genesis (music group), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (movie), Documentary (genre)
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Book Review: Treasured memories of a beloved brother
Anton Chekhov
A Brother's Memoir
Mikhail Chekhov, translated from the Russian by Eugene Alper
Palgrave Macmillan: 230 pp., $25
Anton Chekhov's life is well documented: When he died of consumption in 1904 at age 44, he was honored all over the world....Tags: Education, Health and Medical Professionals, William Trevor, Robert Frost, Happiness (state of mind)
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Favorites 2009: Fiction and poetry
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Doubleday)
A struggling young writer in 1920s Barcelona accepts a lucrative, diabolical assignment commissioned by a shadowy client.
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker (Simon & Schuster)
Meet Paul Chowder, a poet,...Tags: Genesis (music group), Poetry, William Trevor, Thomas Pynchon, Hart Crane
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Los Angeles Times bestsellers (hardcover) for March 14, 2010.
++++++++++++++++++++ || Fiction || Weeks on list || || 1. || The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam: $24.95) The lives of a maid, a cook and a college graduate become intertwined as they change a Mississippi town. || 40 || || 2. || The Man From Beijing by...Tags: Crimes, Horse (animal), Malcolm Gladwell, Schools, Murder
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Patrick White's cruel visionaries
Patrick White, the first great novelist to come out of Australia, was born in 1912, won the Nobel Prize in 1973, died in 1990 and his work promptly dropped from fashion. His style of narrative-driven psychological modernism seemed outmoded, perhaps,...Tags: Peter Carey, Death, Salman Rushdie, Bacon, Romance (genre)
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