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The problem with David Mamet
Critic's Notebook: The dramatist who used to regularly scorch the stage with complex stories has let his anti-P.C. rage blunt his work. What in the world has happened to David Mamet? The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Glengarry Glen Ross," a modern...
Tags: Phil Spector, Journalism, Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts)
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Louis Simpson dies at 89; Pulitzer-winning poet
"A poet," Louis Simpson once wrote, "should wish for enough unhappiness to keep him writing." Simpson may not have wished for trouble, but he kept writing for 60 years — spare, powerful poems about war, infidelity, suburban alienation and other...
Tags: John Updike, State University of New York, W.H. Auden, The Washington Post, Entertainment Events
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The Sunday Conversation: Martin Amis talks 'Lionel Asbo,' money
Martin Amis, once dubbed "fiction's angriest writer," continues dissecting the absurdity and excesses of postmodern society in his latest novel, "Lionel Asbo: State of England," which reaches bookstores Aug. 21. The British novelist, 62, recently moved...
Tags: Sheldon Adelson, Brooklyn (New York City), World War I (1914-1918), Arts and Culture, John Dos Passos
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Christopher Hitchens dies at 62; engaging, enraging author and essayist
Christopher Hitchens, the engaging and enraging British-American author and essayist whose polemical writings on religion, politics, war and other provocations established him as one of his generation's most robust public intellectuals, has died. He was...Tags: Government, Defense, Jacobo Timerman, Noam Chomsky, Conservative Party (UK)
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Don Delillo asks, 'Does poetry need paper'?
Jacket CopyYesterday PEN announced its 2010 literary awards; the winners include novelist Don Delillo, who takes the top honor, the Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. Delillo's first book, "Americana," was published in 1971; his most recent,... -
'Friday Night Lights' Season 5, Episode 3: 'The Right Hand of the Father'
Show TrackerThere's a moment in a "Friday Night Lights" season when everything -- almost everything, at least -- seems to click. The point last season, for instance, when Lyla Garrity (Minka Kelly) came back to Dillon, Texas, and illustrated the maturity...... -
Paperback Writers: Sunlight and shadow in 'Los Angeles in the 1930s'
Special to the Los Angeles TimesCreated by FDR in 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, the Federal Writers' Project (a small part of the wider Works Progress Administration) was a make-work agency that gave jobs to about 6,500 writers, editors and researchers before closing shop...Tags: W.H. Auden, Arts and Culture, Crime, Law and Justice, Book, Los Angeles Police Department
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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: Nobel Prize Awards, Crime, Law and Justice, Philip Roth, Awards and Prizes, Martin Amis
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Erich Segal dies at 72; author of 'Love Story'
Erich Segal, a Yale University classics professor whose first novel, the weepy "Love Story," became a pop-culture phenomenon, selling more than 20 million copies in three dozen languages and spawning an iconic catchphrase of the 1970s, died Sunday in...Tags: Brooklyn (New York City), Princeton University, Television, Social Issues, William Styron
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Nobel laureates in literature: the good, the bad and the Nazi
Jacket CopyWhen the Nobel Prize in literature was announced this month, the name "Herta Muller" met much American head-scratching. Muller, an ethnically German Romanian who writes of trials of living under a repressive dictatorship, has a strong reputation in Europe... -
Welcome to Hecht's Windy City
Ben Hecht used Oscars for doorstops and routinely heaped scorn on the studio pontiffs who, throughout the 1930s and 1940s, paid him an average of $3,500 a day. Before he co-wrote "The Front Page," the play that brought him fame and opportunity, before...Tags: Journalism, Justice System, Immigration, Crime, Law and Justice, Charles Dickens
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Fiction is dead. Again? [updated]
Jacket CopyPut down that dragon tattoo girl. Stop catching up with Bree Tanner. You don't need any help from Kathryn Stockett, or to chew your fingernails through a hunger game. Forget about the latest from Scott Turow or David Mitchell or......
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