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Most interesting comment thread of the day, courtesy Helen DeWitt
Jacket CopyNovelist Helen DeWitt takes issue with the romantic idea that a writer is a person who has to write.... -
Music review: Gabriel Kahane's score is conducted by his father
Gabriel Kahane, best known as an indie singer-songwriter, was his own charismatic singer-songwriter Saturday night in the West Coast premiere of his affecting "Crane Palimpsest" at the Alex Theatre. As he does in a club, he used a microphone and wore...
Tags: Brooklyn Bridge, Navy Yard, Poetry, Carnegie Hall, Entertainment
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Karl Marx, Harper Lee sold big in 2011
Tribune NewspapersUsed book-selling website AbeBooks' biggest sale in 2011 was of Karl Marx's "Das Kapital," the three-volume first edition published by Otto Meissner in 1867. Ironically, someone paid $51,739 for the seminal critique of capitalism. The second-highest sale...Tags: Thomas Carlyle, Book, Pablo Picasso, John Ruskin, Karl Marx
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James Franco signs publishing deal with Amazon
Tribune NewspapersJames Franco, the actor-writer-producer-graduate student, has signed a publishing deal with Amazon's fledgling publishing house, the Observer reports. It will be Franco's first novel, tentatively titled "Actors Anonymous," and said to be loosely based on...Tags: University of Houston, Colleges and Universities, Charles Bukowski, Awards and Prizes, Entertainment Events
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James Franco's Hart Crane biopic, 'The Broken Tower' [video]
Jacket CopyJames Franco cares enough about the life and work of poet Hart Crane to have made a biopic, released this week. How'd he do?... -
New L.A. art fair firms up galleries and VIP program
Culture MonsterAdam Gross, the energetic director of Art Platform Los Angeles, reports that over 70 galleries have signed up for his new fair to debut October 1 to 3, with a few more to be confirmed.... -
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: Usher, Poetry, Alice Munro, Book, Korean War (1950-1953)
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James Franco's buying spree
Jacket CopyOn Tuesday, D.J. Waldie sent around an e-mail announcing that James Franco had bought the rights to "Holy Land," Waldie's memoir of growing up in Lakewood in the 1950s. New housing tracts! Fallout shelters! Strange neighbors! Suburban ennui! According to.... -
School reading: James Prosek on Elizabeth Bishop
Jacket CopyJames Prosek was just 19 when his first book, 1996's "Trout: An Illustrated History," was published. It included original watercolors he'd painted of North American trout as well as the stories he'd learned about them. This fall, he turns his...... -
Creative-writing MFA student to co-host the Oscars
Jacket CopyJames Franco will co-host the 83rd annual Oscar telecast on Feb. 27 with Anne Hathaway, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Monday. Although most of the world knows Hathaway and Franco as talented young actors who can...... -
James Franco talks poetry and film
Jacket CopyJames Franco talks about the intersection of poetry and film in a conversation at the Poetry Foundation.... -
James Franco options Steve Erickson's 'Zeroville'
Jacket CopyJames Franco has optioned Steve Erickson's film-focused novel, Zeroville....
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