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    Mar 8, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. John Cheever: New volumes spotlight his life and work

    "I shall not, for example, try to evoke a rhetorical chiaroscuro of an intellect suspended in the twilight of the last divine monarchy, exposed to the philosophies of anarchy, communism and socialism, stricken by a loss of free speech; an intelligence illuminated as often by Paris and London as by Moscow, the flower of the clash between Aristotelian and Marxist thought. I shall not speak of Chekhov in these terms because I think he would not like it."
    "I shall not, for example, try to evoke a rhetorical chiaroscuro of an intellect suspended in the twilight of the last divine monarchy, exposed to the philosophies of anarchy, communism and socialism, stricken by a loss of free speech; an intelligence...

    Tags: Forestry and Timber, Alice Munro, Endangered Species, Family, Nature

    2. Feb 10, 2009 |Resource Link| Los Angeles Times

  2. Desperation all too real on 'Real Housewives of Orange County'

    Tags: Social Issues, Lifestyle and Leisure, John Cheever, Dining and Drinking, Philosophy

    3. Feb 20, 2000 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. "Gertrude and Claudius: A Novel" by John Updike

    Special to the Times
    Only John Updike could turn Hamlet's melancholy metaphysics into a saga of love and betrayal in the suburbs. There are moments when "Gertrude and Claudius," a prequel to Shakespeare's "Hamlet," is strikingly reminiscent of "Couples," Updike's...

    Tags: Crimes, Marcel Duchamp, Social Issues, Literature, Crime, Law and Justice

    4. Nov 19, 2000 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. "Licks of Love" by John Updike

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    LICKS OF LOVE Short Stories and a Sequel, 'Rabbit Remembered' By John Updike; Alfred A. Knopf: 360 pp., $25 "Infidelity," reflects Frank, epicenter of the story "Natural Color," "widens a couple's erotic field at first, but leaves it weaker and...
    5. Aug 7, 2002 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Montecito

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    A Day in the Life, at 90 * Keeping up with Julia Child, who has a new home, a new book deal and a balky oven Home Edition, Food, Page H-1 Features Desk 61 inches; 2181 words Type of Material: Profile; Recipe By RUSS PARSONS, TIMES STAFF WRITER...

    Tags: Oysters, Injuries and Wounds, Electrical Appliance, U.S. Department of State, History

    6. Nov 16, 2003 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. "The Early Stories, 1953-1975" by John Updike

    Special to the Times
    Until the rise of the suburbs after the Second World War, you could pretty much divide American authors of fiction into country writers and city writers. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner are in the former category; Henry...

    Tags: Adultery, Book, The Happiest News!, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Todd Haynes

    7. Apr 6, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  7. Author George Saunders headlines 10th annual CityLit Festival

    Author George Saunders is having the kind of year that could lead the former roofer and slaughterhouse worker to imagine that someone is spritzing the air around him with a giant bottle of perfume.
    Author George Saunders is having the kind of year that could lead the former roofer and slaughterhouse worker to imagine that someone is spritzing the air around him with a giant bottle of perfume. "The way things have been going recently, it's as if...

    Tags: Teaching and Learning, Entertainment Events, Teachers, Fiction, Enoch Pratt Free Library

    8. Mar 15, 2013 |Story| Hartford Courant

  8. Philip Roth 'Unmasked' For PBS Special

    For a man who spent many years avoiding interviews as he turned out a body of work that made him one of America's greatest living writers, Philip Roth, who turns 80 on March 19, is talking quite a bit.
    The Hartford Courant
    For a man who spent many years avoiding interviews as he turned out a body of work that made him one of America's greatest living writers, Philip Roth, who turns 80 on March 19, is talking quite a bit. The writer was interviewed in his 18th century...

    Tags: Heavy Engineering, Manufacturing and Engineering, Entertainment Events, William Styron, Richard Nixon

    9. Jan 18, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  9. Biblioracle: Saluting the Bildungsroman

    I've been spending my holiday teaching break trying to finish a manuscript for a young adult coming-of-age novel I'm working on, which has me thinking a lot about coming-of-age novels, which has me wondering if all good novels aren't coming-of-age novels.
    I've been spending my holiday teaching break trying to finish a manuscript for a young adult coming-of-age novel I'm working on, which has me thinking a lot about coming-of-age novels, which has me wondering if all good novels aren't coming-of-age novels....

    Tags: Harry Potter (fictional character), Chicago Tribune, SUVs and Crossovers, Literature, Stewart O'Nan

    10. Jan 11, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  10. 'Magical Journey' by Katrina Kenison

    In this moving memoir, Katrina Kenison beckons readers into her world and proves to be an insightful guide and companion through the vicissitudes of life. After the death of a friend, and when her youngest son leaves their rural New Hampshire home to...

    Tags: Elizabeth Taylor, Book, Authors

    11. Jan 4, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  11. George Saunders gets real in new story collection

    For George Saunders, the lines between utopia and dystopia, between realism and science fiction, between humor and horror, have always been fine. Never is it more true, though, than in his new collection of short stories, “Tenth of December.” Saunders has stripped these stories of the skewed settings that marked his earlier works, concentrating instead on rendering a very real, very genuine world and all the emotion that flows within it. A streak of absurdity still runs through it, but it's much more organic in nature.  
    For George Saunders, the lines between utopia and dystopia, between realism and science fiction, between humor and horror, have always been fine. Never is it more true, though, than in his new collection of short stories, “Tenth of December.”...

    Tags: Chicago Tribune, Human Interest, Literature, Petroleum Industry, Fiction

    12. Dec 7, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  12. Nathan Englander examines identity

    Every journalist's nightmare is the interview with the subject who responds to questions with one-sentence (or even one-word) answers. Fortunately, the writer Nathan Englander — who was in Chicago recently as the inaugural Crown Speaker Series lecturer at Northwestern University's Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies — is apparently incapable of brevity. Ask him a question and he's off to the races, speaking quickly and comprehensively, each answer a complete essay in itself. A native of Long Island, N.Y., Englander grew up in an Orthodox Jewish community in Nassau County, and later lived for a time in Jerusalem. His Jewish background provides the setting for virtually all of his fiction, including the short-story collection "For the Relief of Unbearable Urges" (1999), the novel "The Ministry of Special Cases" (2007) and a second collection, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank," published this year. His play, "The Twenty-Seventh Man" — an adaptation of his own story about a group of Jewish writers imprisoned in Stalinist Russia — opened last month at the Public Theater in New York. Englander's translations have been published in "New American Haggadah" (2012), edited by Jonathan Safran Foer, and "Suddenly a Knock on the Door," a collection of short stories by Israeli writer Etgar Keret.
    Every journalist's nightmare is the interview with the subject who responds to questions with one-sentence (or even one-word) answers. Fortunately, the writer Nathan Englander — who was in Chicago recently as the inaugural Crown Speaker Series...

    Tags: Religion and Belief, Saul Bellow, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Michael Chabon, Judaism

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