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What it takes to get writers writing
Jacket CopyWhen it comes to writing, authors can be pretty superstitious.... -
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.... -
'Mad Men' recap: Fright night
Show Tracker"Mad Men" travels to the dark side--the really, really dark side.... -
Books by dudes for dudes, books by chicks for dudes
Jacket CopyEsquire's 75 books by dudes for dudes is three years old, but Joyland created a list of 250 books for dudes by chicks.... -
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: Sarah Vowell, John O'Hara, Josh Radnor, Animal Planet (tv network), Mary Kay Place
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Book review: 'Letters,' Saul Bellow, edited by Benjamin Taylor
Special to the Los Angeles TimesLetters Saul Bellow, edited by Benjamin Taylor Viking: 608 pp, $35 Saul Bellow, being Saul Bellow, coined literary profit from emotional tumult. From personal pain came self-exploration and impish bons mots, poured into the heightened confessional of...Tags: Ralph Ellison, Nobel Prize Awards, Philip Roth, Edmund Wilson, Human Interest
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On the big screen: 'Play It as It Lays' [Updated]
Jacket CopyJoan Didion is an acknowledged master of nonfiction, from her breakthrough 1968 essay collection "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" to "The Year of Magical Thinking," which won the 2005 National Book Award. Her fiction, however, has always been more... -
Fall preview: Publishing
Los Angeles TimesNot that long ago, e-books were an oddity: Devices were expensive, and those who invested in them struggled to find something good to read. But the age of preferring paperbacks is starting to look like the late era of CDs — e-books are ascendant....Tags: Ralph Ellison, Mass Media, Services and Shopping, Book, Books
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This Recording's marvelous writers series
Jacket CopyA blog series on writers from This Recording is a must-read.... -
'Selected Shorts' at the Getty, starring Tim Curry
Jacket CopyActor Tim Curry was the highlight of Saturday afternoon's Selected Shorts fiction reading at the Getty.... -
10 'Mad Men' books to keep you going until 2012
Jacket Copy10 Mad Men books to tide you over during the hiatus that goes until 2111. I mean 2012.... -
Matt Weinstock, Nov. 25, 1960
The Daily MirrorNov. 25, 1960: Matt Weinstock checks in with John Cheever, who’s in Hollywood doing a treatment of D.H. Lawrence’s “The Lost Girl.” “If the short story, of which I am an enthusiastic addict, has any future, Cheever is one of......
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