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Review: Jonathan Franzen's 'Farther Away' wants to bridge distance
Tribune newspapers-------------------- Farther 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...Tags: Literature, Donald Antrim, Authors, Daniel Defoe, 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: Book, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Religious Conflicts, Civil Unrest, Human Interest
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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: Hart Crane, Book, Korean War (1950-1953), Genesis (music group), Usher
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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...... -
'The Killing' recap: Taking its time
Show TrackerThe opening episodes of 'The Killing' gain power from taking their time, says this recap.... -
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: Book, Stranger Than Fiction, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Britney Spears, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (movie)
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John Grisham and the return of the short story
Jacket CopySince 1989, John Grisham has written one book of nonfiction, 21 novels and had 10 of his books turned into big Hollywood movies, including "The Firm," "The Pelican Brief" and "Runaway Jury." This fall, the many-times-over bestselling author published,... -
Los Angeles Times bestsellers for Jan. 10, 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. || 31 || || 2. || Wolf Hall by Hilary...Tags: Book, Henry Holt, Genesis (music group), Clubs and Associations, Crimes
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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: Emily Dickinson, Robert Motherwell, Leonardo da Vinci, Harvard University, Education
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Los Angeles Times bestsellers for Jan. 17, 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. || 32 || || 2. || Too Much Happiness by...Tags: The Amistad, Genesis (music group), Henry Holt, Family, Clubs and Associations
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