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Take Grisham out to the ballgame
Jacket CopyJohn Grisham's new novel "Calico Joe," coming in April, will be about baseball.... -
The Writing Life: The point of the long and winding sentence
"Your sentences are so long," said a friend who teaches English at a local college, and I could tell she didn't quite mean it as a compliment. The copy editor who painstakingly went through my most recent book often put yellow dashes on-screen around my...Tags: Terrence Malick, Radio, Salman Rushdie, Entertainment, Annie Dillard
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David Cronenberg on why the new 'Fly' has been swatted
24 FramesThe Fly, a reboot that David Cronenberg had been planning at Fox, is not moving forward... -
Book review: 'The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories' by Don DeLillo
Tribune criticIt's impossible not to get a sense of déjà vu reading "The Angel Esmeralda," the first book of short stories in Don DeLillo's 40-year career. The themes here are echoes — of one another, yes, but even more, of the issues that have defined DeLillo'...Tags: Athens (Greece), Literature, Arts and Culture, Book, Terrorism
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Holiday books: Fiction
Aleph
A Novel
Paulo Coelho
Alfred A. Knopf, $24.95
A crisis of faith prompts a man to begin a journey of self-discovery from Africa to Asia.
The Angel Esmeralda
Nine Stories
Don DeLillo
Scribner, $24
The first collection of short stories from a...Tags: Hurricane Katrina (2005), David Lodge, Nobel Prize Awards, Entertainment Events, World War I (1914-1918)
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In this Sunday's Times: Getting to know Don DeLillo
Jacket CopyUnfamiliar with the works of Don DeLillo? For a primer of sorts, says David L. Ulin in a review featured in this Sunday's books coverage, you might turn to the collection "The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories." This short story collection,...... -
'Dangerous Method': David Cronenberg on Freud, Jung and hysteria
24 FramesDavid Cronenberg, director of blood-soaked dramas like “A History of Violence” and cult genre pictures like “The Fly,” detours into the life of the mind with his new film, “A Dangerous Method.” Adapted from... -
Book review: 'The Art of Fielding' by Chad Harbach
The Art of Fielding
A Novel
Chad Harbach
Little, Brown: 528 pp., $25.99
In terms of conjuring a shorthand for a certain American innocence, there are few delivery systems quite so direct as baseball. Touched on by a library's worth of authors...Tags: Rick Ankiel, Raymond Carver, Chuck Knoblauch, Baseball, Book
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Dana Spiotta writes firmly in the moment
Los Angeles Times"Seventies Los Angeles is really not ever very far from my mind, for some weird reason," says author Dana Spiotta, a former Angeleno who now lives in upstate New York. "I just love '70s Los Angeles." The city plays a big part in her latest novel,...Tags: Iggy Pop, Fiction, Radio, Satellite and Cable Service, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Review: 'My American Unhappiness' by Dean Bakopoulos
Los Angeles TimesMy American Unhappiness A Novel Dean Bakopoulos Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 277 pp., $24 Whichever way you turn, beacons of American inauthenticity and political dysfunction are all around you, clamoring for your head space, your dollars, your...Tags: Car Repair and Maintenance Tips, Entertainment, Television, Comedy (genre), JG Ballard
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Dana Spiotta on living the creative life
Jacket CopyDana Spiotta is interviewed by Carolyn Kellogg for the L.A. Times. Dana Spiotta is the author of "Stone Arabia."... -
Book Review: 'Millennium People' by J.G. Ballard
Los Angeles Times Book CriticWhen J.G. Ballard died in April 2009, he left behind a body of work dominated by a few key ideas. First were the erotic possibilities of violence, as embodied by his 1973 novel "Crash." Equally important was his sense of suburban life as not just soul-...Tags: Real Estate, Health, Science and Technology, Book, England
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