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    May 16, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Astral Weeks: An unexpected, and welcome, DeLillo discovery

    In Don DeLillo's latest novel, the weirdly exciting "Point Omega," a character is "trying to read science fiction but nothing she'd read so far could begin to match ordinary life on this planet ... for sheer unimaginableness." With another writer, you might coax an unsurprising aesthetic from this point of view: Ignore the attractions of extraterrestrials and dystopia — the way we live now is more than ample fodder for the fiction writer's art.
    In Don DeLillo's latest novel, the weirdly exciting "Point Omega," a character is "trying to read science fiction but nothing she'd read so far could begin to match ordinary life on this planet ... for sheer unimaginableness." With another writer, you...

    Tags: Patrick Kelly, Science and Technology, Fiction, Science, Arts and Culture

    2. Sep 27, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. 'Juliet, Naked' by Nick Hornby

    Juliet, Naked
    Juliet, Naked A Novel Nick Hornby Riverhead: 406 pp., $25.95 Tucker Crowe, the reclusive singer-songwriter of "Juliet, Naked," inspires a cadre of obsessive fans who parse his every lyric and musical move. He's like Bob Dylan, but not as genius, nor...

    Tags: Apple iPod, Bob Dylan, Music Industry

    3. Jan 27, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  3. Clobberin' Oscar Wilde

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    In 1998, a Canadian comics fan sent letters to 10 illustrators asking for them to send him a sketch of their favorite literary figure, either a fictional character or a real-life author. After getting a few back -- including one......
    4. Feb 1, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  4. It's a wild world with Don DeLillo, Eve Ensler and more

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    In our pages on Sunday, novelist Matthew Sharpe looked at Don DeLillo's new novel (novella?), "Point Omega." In it, a filmmaker joins a former presidential war advisor at his desert vacation home, hoping to persuade him to be in a......
    5. Mar 9, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  5. Monster Mash: Autry president to retire; Einstein's theory of relativity goes public; LuPone's ballet debut

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    --Bidding farewell: John L. Gray, president of the Autry National Center of the American West, will announce his retirement today. (Los Angeles Times) --Scientific treasure: The original 46-page manuscript of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity...
    6. May 4, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. 'Away From Her,' written on the pages of the mind

    THE tale of a superhero, a '70s drug dealer, or a plot to destroy the world it's not.
    Times Staff Writer
    THE tale of a superhero, a '70s drug dealer, or a plot to destroy the world it's not. Alice Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain," which isn't really about a bear and does not feature a mountain, is the story of an elderly couple — a once-...

    Tags: Julie Christie, k.d. lang, Ingmar Bergman, Michael Ondaatje, Canada

    7. Jun 22, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Annual Hay Festival is one for the books

    The small market town of Hay, nestled on the border between England and Wales, is an unlikely setting for one of the world's biggest book festivals. It has a population of less than 2,000, and the nearest train station is 30 miles away. Yet each year, during the last week of May and the first weekend in June, upward of 100,000 people descend on this tiny town to attend the Hay Festival, a literary extravaganza that is now firmly established as the biggest book event in Britain.
    The small market town of Hay, nestled on the border between England and Wales, is an unlikely setting for one of the world's biggest book festivals. It has a population of less than 2,000, and the nearest train station is 30 miles away. Yet each year,...

    Tags: Al Gore, Gore Vidal, Gordon Brown, John Updike, Festive Events

    8. Mar 23, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. The Gen X poster boy's endless ennui

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    In his 1985 breakout novel, "Less Than Zero," Bret Easton Ellis, then all of 21 years old, created young, jaded Angelenos who just didn't care about anything: They recounted cocaine scores and semi-anonymous sex in the same tone with which they lamented...

    Tags: Crimes, Sexual Assault, Book, Alice Munro, Brad Renfro

    9. Jul 22, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. His own brand

    Almost 50 years ago, in 1959, Philip Roth published "Goodbye, Columbus," a coming-of-age love story that was short, sharp, tender and pitch-perfect, and won the National Book Award. Few writers have launched a career so auspiciously. Roth, of course, went on to win pretty much every other literary prize going, achieving almost uncontrollable celebrity with his 1969 novel "Portnoy's Complaint." Here, obviously, was a big career.
    Almost 50 years ago, in 1959, Philip Roth published "Goodbye, Columbus," a coming-of-age love story that was short, sharp, tender and pitch-perfect, and won the National Book Award. Few writers have launched a career so auspiciously. Roth, of course, went...

    Tags: Cormac McCarthy, Saul Bellow, Awards and Prizes, Christopher Hitchens, Book

    10. Apr 26, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Nelson Algren's legacy ebbs

    The Steppenwolf Theatre feels like a womb. It's warm, dark, soporific, full of voices barely loud enough to be distinguished, a setting beyond time. Outside, the streets of Old Town are laced with spring afternoon snowflakes; on the South Side, at U.S. Cellular Field (formerly Comiskey Park), opening day has been postponed.
    The Steppenwolf Theatre feels like a womb. It's warm, dark, soporific, full of voices barely loud enough to be distinguished, a setting beyond time. Outside, the streets of Old Town are laced with spring afternoon snowflakes; on the South Side, at U.S....

    Tags: Death, Steppenwolf Theatre, Billie Holiday, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes

    11. Apr 9, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Champion of the American novel

    April 10, 2008
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    April 10, 2008 NEW YORK -- The late Norman Mailer, a novelist and cultural provocateur who was rarely at a loss for words, was remembered at a memorial service Wednesday as a man whose deep and abiding commitment to the American novel will be his most...

    Tags: Gore Vidal, Sean Penn, Death, William Kennedy, Muhammad Ali

    12. Mar 30, 2006 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Taking a look inside ourselves

    Times Staff Writer
    SPORTS are tribal. We line up with our team, our school, our city; paint our faces Trojan colors, dye our hair Dodger blue. We immerse ourselves in the history, in the rivalries: Magic against Larry, John Roseboro against Juan Marichal, Al Davis against...

    Tags: Juan Marichal, University of California, Los Angeles, New York Giants, Chicago Cubs, Photography

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