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The Age of Movies
The Selected Writings of Pauline Kael
Edited by Sanford Schwartz
Library of America, $40
Witty, entertaining and often exhilarating, this wide-ranging collection of pieces captures the film critic at her best.
Alice James
A...Tags: Henry Holt, John Huston, Goldie Hawn, Humphrey Bogart, Carrie Fisher
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Book calendar events for the week of March 27, 2011
Words & Ideas Compiled by Grace Krilanovich SUNDAY 826LA Adult Writing Seminar Series: TV Writing: Panelists include Jane Espenson, Drew Z. Greenberg and Damon Lindelof. Meltdown Comics, 7522 W. Sunset Blvd., L.A. 7 p.m. $12-$15. (213) 413-3388. http:/...Tags: Science, Television, Foods and Beverages, John O'Hara, Entertainment
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Book calendar events for the week of March 06, 2011
Words & Ideas Compiled by Grace Krilanovich. SUNDAY 826LA Adult Writing Seminar Series: TV Writing: A series of four panel discussions featuring industry professionals will cover multiple aspects of writing for television. Panelists include Allan Loeb,...Tags: Frank Lloyd, Television, Soups, Foods and Beverages, Bill Gates
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Ann Beattie and her moment
Jacket CopyI remember my Ann Beattie moment. It was in the fall of 1984, just after I'd graduated from college. I was living in Manhattan and, while trying to get up the nerve and the funds to move to California, working...... -
David Markson dies at 82; postmodern writer
David Markson, a postmodern author who rummaged relentlessly and humorously through art, history and reality itself in such novels as "Wittgenstein's Mistress" and wrote crime fiction, poetry and a spoof of westerns made into the Frank Sinatra film "Dirty...Tags: Dylan Thomas, Greenwich Village, Crimes, Columbia University, Frank Sinatra
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A writing career becomes harder to scale
In the late 1980s, when I was a graduate student working on short stories and flirting with the idea of a novel, I came across an essay that was being passed around my circle of friends. It was titled "Writing in the Cold: The First Ten Years," and the...Tags: Apprentices, Television Networks, Oprah Winfrey, Newspaper and Magazine, John Irving
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'The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To'
The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To
A Novel
DC Pierson
Vintage Contemporaries: 240 pp.,
$14 paper
As writers such as Michael Chabon and Jonathan Lethem have embraced their comic-inspired youth, revealing an intimate love for the medium and an...Tags: Romance (genre), Book, Fiction, Star Wars (movie), Science Fiction (genre)
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First John Updike conference to be held this fall
Jacket CopyThe works of John Updike will be celebrated and examined at the inaugural John Updike Conference, to be held this fall in Reading, Penn. Updike, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, may be best remembered as the author of the Harry...... -
King, Beattie books among new crop
Fiction
"The Lost Memory of Skin" (Ecco) by Russell Banks. Coming Tuesday. Banks, one of our finest and most adventurous novelists, is not afraid to tackle big, tough topics that persistently bedevil the human species, and with his 17th book, he has...Tags: Saul Bellow, Television, Michael Ondaatje, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Julia Keller
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'The New Yorker Stories' by Ann Beattie
Literary editorBetween the presidencies of Richard Nixon/Gerald Ford (1974) and George W. Bush (2006), Ann Beattie published 48 stories in The New Yorker, one of which was included in "The Best American Short Stories of the Century." These stories are collected in...Tags: George W. Bush, Elizabeth Taylor, Christopher Cox
Nov 30, 2011
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Mar 27, 2011
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Jun 15, 2010
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Sep 23, 2011
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Oct 14, 2011
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