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    May 16, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Would novelists want to be friends with Humbert Humbert?

    In a widely circulated <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/56848-an-unseemly-emotion-pw-talks-with-claire-messud.html">interview</a> with Publishers Weekly, writer Claire Messud was asked if she would want to be friends with the protagonist of her new novel, "The Woman Upstairs." She responded with frustration: "For heaven&rsquo;s sake, what kind of question is that? Would you want to be friends with Humbert Humbert?"
    In a widely circulated interview with Publishers Weekly, writer Claire Messud was asked if she would want to be friends with the protagonist of her new novel, "The Woman Upstairs." She responded with frustration: "For heaven’s sake, what kind of...

    Tags: Authors, Social Media, Donald Antrim

    2. Apr 3, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Review: 'How to Live With Your Parents' is a by-the-manual comedy

    Some fine actors have contracted to appear in "How to Live With Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life)," a multi-generational family comedy premiering Wednesday night on ABC. It should do their careers no lasting harm.
    Some fine actors have contracted to appear in "How to Live With Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life)," a multi-generational family comedy premiering Wednesday night on ABC. It should do their careers no lasting harm. It is the sort of neither-here-...

    Tags: Sarah Chalke, Entertainment, Brad Garrett, Elizabeth Perkins, ABC (tv network)

    3. Mar 27, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Philip Roth gets 'Unmasked' on PBS -- or does he?

    I&rsquo;m of two minds about &ldquo;Philip Roth: Unmasked,&rdquo; the &ldquo;American Masters&rdquo; documentary that airs Friday night on PBS.
    I’m of two minds about “Philip Roth: Unmasked,” the “American Masters” documentary that airs Friday night on PBS. On the one hand, it’s always a pleasure to hear Roth, who turned 80 this month and recently announced...

    Tags: Nazi Party, Authors, Arts and Culture, Chinua Achebe, Judaism

    4. Jan 27, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Catherine Opie's documentary photography is on display

    The room is arranged like a gallery, hung with photographs of various sizes and shapes, framed and unframed, surrounding the artist Catherine Opie, who looks pleased as she observes from a rocking chair.
    The room is arranged like a gallery, hung with photographs of various sizes and shapes, framed and unframed, surrounding the artist Catherine Opie, who looks pleased as she observes from a rocking chair. This studio built behind her house in West...

    Tags: Richard Burton, Arts and Culture, Wildlife, Artists, Arts

    5. Jan 24, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. George Saunders hasn't written a novel, and I don't care

    When I was a 30-year-old MFA student just starting the Creative Writing program in fiction at UC Irvine, I sat down with my advisor.
    When I was a 30-year-old MFA student just starting the Creative Writing program in fiction at UC Irvine, I sat down with my advisor. So, she asked me, what are your plans for your two years here? Well, I said, I figure I’ll write a collection of...

    Tags: George Saunders, Authors, Sundance Film Festival, Oprah Winfrey, University of California, Irvine

    6. Sep 9, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. D.T. Max takes on the life of David Foster Wallace

    D.T. Max knew what he was getting into when he decided to write a biography of David Foster Wallace. In March 2009, he published a long piece in the New Yorker about Wallace's suicide and the author's inability to finish "The Pale King," the novel left incomplete at the time of his death.
    D.T. Max knew what he was getting into when he decided to write a biography of David Foster Wallace. In March 2009, he published a long piece in the New Yorker about Wallace's suicide and the author's inability to finish "The Pale King," the novel left...

    Tags: Literature, Arts and Culture, Authors, Suicide, Depression

    7. Jun 10, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Critic's Notebook: Essays tiptoe up to grab us unawares

    Essays sneak up on us. They are &mdash; or often feel &mdash; accidental: the record of a writer wrestling with an idea, an observation, a slice of experience, of a writer figuring it out. They have a conditional quality, as if they could go in any direction, offering impressions more than conclusive points of view. As Tom Bissell notes at the beginning of "Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation": "When I am asked ... for advice on how to get started as a nonfiction writer, I tell them to start small and look around."
    Essays sneak up on us. They are — or often feel — accidental: the record of a writer wrestling with an idea, an observation, a slice of experience, of a writer figuring it out. They have a conditional quality, as if they could go in any...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Artists, Lady Gaga, Werner Herzog, Entertainment

    8. Jun 1, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  8. Oprah relaunches book club, saying 'I still believe in books'

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    Are you ready for Oprah's Book Club 2.0? Bring your Kindles, if you like....
    9. May 16, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  9. Most interesting comment thread of the day, courtesy Helen DeWitt

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    Novelist Helen DeWitt takes issue with the romantic idea that a writer is a person who has to write....
    10. May 16, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  10. Sarajevo with tears: Another walk down Logavina Street

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    Barbara Demick says that" real Sarajevans don’t like to talk about the war," but her book, "Logavina Street," follows the lives of a small community during the conflict. It has been re-released, with additional materials, commemorating the 20th...
    11. Apr 27, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  11. On Sunday: Alain Mabanckou, Jonathan Franzen and lumber as history

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    In Sunday books: a talk with UCLA author Alain Mabanckou, plus reviews of the latest by Jonathan Franzen, lumber as history and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's letters and diaries....
    12. Feb 1, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  12. Mark Taper Forum's 'Clybourne Park' Broadway run derailed

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    The Broadway run of the Pulitzer Prize winning play "Clybourne Park" has been canceled by producer Scott Rudin....
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