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Not from the Onion: Martin Amis' 1982 video game guide
Jacket CopyMartin Amis once wrote a book explaining how to win at Pac-Man.... -
On Christopher Hitchens: August Brown considers
Jacket CopyAugust Brown writes: For me, his greatest influence was on the page. His style was defined by a refusal to resort to stock images and analysis -- or to accept them from others.... -
Introducing the Hatchet Job of the Year Award
Jacket CopyThe first Hatchet Job of the Year Award is designed to celebrate the year's most elegantly cutting book review.... -
National Book Critics Circle announces finalists for 2011 awards
Jacket CopyThe National Book Critics Circle announced the finalists for its 2011 book awards at a public ceremony on Saturday in New York City. Two Southern California writers are among those up for the awards, which will be presented on March...... -
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: Religion and Belief, Genes and Chromosomes, Human Interest, Literature, Wars and Interventions
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Christopher Hitchens: Why did I adore him?
By Amy WilentzI'd been working as a lowly scrub at the Nation in New York when, in 1979, I was asked to track down Christopher Hitchens on a trip I happened to be taking to London. My assignment: To lure him to come work for us. I was a convincing emissary, because...Tags: John Lennon, Iraq War (2003-2011), Christopher Hitchens, John F. Kennedy, Paul McCartney
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How 9/11 seared itself into American culture
How should popular culture deal with a tragedy in which nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in a space of time equivalent to an average-length feature film?
Judging by the evidence of how our culture has processed the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks...Tags: Culture, Documentary (genre), Artists, Man on Wire (movie), September 11, 2001 Attacks
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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: Crimes, Human Interest, Awards and Prizes, Nobel Prize Awards, Cynthia Ozick
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On the L.A. Times bestseller list: A fading newspaper
Jacket CopyTom Rachman didn't much like working as a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press or editor at the International Herald Tribune. "I’m mad about journalism, but the daily grind really got to me,” he told the Globe and Mail. But...... -
Amazon content coup? E-tailer gets exclusive Roth, Mailer, Nabokov and Updike backlist
Jacket CopyAmazon.com now has exclusive rights to sell the e-book versions of some of the best-known titles from top literary authors Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike and more. In an announcement late Wednesday -- shortly after midnight... -
Wednesday's TV Talk Shows
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of Aug. 8 - 14 in PDF format This week's TV Movies Weekly TV Listings can also be downloaded here The Early Show Chef Katie Lee. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today...... -
Glenn Goldman's books, up for auction
Jacket CopyThey all came to Book Soup -- writers Martin Amis, Hunter S. Thompson and John Updike, former President Bill Clinton, artists Ed Ruscha, Helmut Newton and Andy Warhol. At the West Hollywood bookstore, they signed books for readers who queued......
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