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    Jan 1, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Christopher Hitchens: Why did I adore him?

    By Amy Wilentz
    I'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: Lord Byron, Christopher Hitchens, Paul McCartney, Jean-Marie Le Pen, John F. Kennedy

    2. Dec 15, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. 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 62.
    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: Human Rights, Michael Chertoff, Cancer, Judaism, Book

    3. Dec 31, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  3. On Christopher Hitchens: August Brown considers

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    August 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....
    4. Jan 11, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  4. Introducing the Hatchet Job of the Year Award

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    The first Hatchet Job of the Year Award is designed to celebrate the year's most elegantly cutting book review....
    5. Jan 21, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  5. National Book Critics Circle announces finalists for 2011 awards

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    The 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......
    6. Feb 16, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  6. Not from the Onion: Martin Amis' 1982 video game guide

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    Martin Amis once wrote a book explaining how to win at Pac-Man....
    7. Dec 26, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Book review: 'Letters,' Saul Bellow, edited by Benjamin Taylor

    Letters
    Special to the Los Angeles Times
    Letters 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, Edmund Wilson, Saul Bellow, Alfred Kazin, Philip Roth

    8. Feb 28, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Paperback Writers: Sillitoe's still running

    Alan Sillitoe, now in his 80s, grew up in Nottingham, in the English midlands, in the kind of squalor and poverty that, a century earlier, gave Charles Dickens nightmares. Sillitoe's father was a violent drunk; his mother, on occasion, was forced to prostitute herself. The family, constantly fighting to stay one step ahead of debt and rent collectors, was often on the move, dodging from one squalid tenement to the next, wheeling their belongings in a hand-cart. An abiding memory of his childhood, Sillitoe has written, was of his father raising his fist and his mother pleading: "Not in the face."
    Alan Sillitoe, now in his 80s, grew up in Nottingham, in the English midlands, in the kind of squalor and poverty that, a century earlier, gave Charles Dickens nightmares. Sillitoe's father was a violent drunk; his mother, on occasion, was forced to...

    Tags: Crimes, Anthony Burgess, Charles Dickens, Murder, John Updike

    9. Oct 15, 2009 | Los Angeles Times

  9. Michael Chabon ponders the dark side of ... 'Star Wars' Legos?

    The Hero Complex
    Jacket Copy is our more-adult sister blog about books (and by "more-adult" I don't mean porn; I mean that it has fewer posts about, you know, zombie comedies and super-villains) and our newsroom pal Carolyn Kellogg has a new Q&A......
    10. Oct 18, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Paperback Writers: Slaughter and rubble

    "The only way I can regain credit for my early work is to die," Kurt Vonnegut once said, sounding more amused than worried about it. Ever the realist, ever the stoic, ever the cynic, Vonnegut got how the lit game works. Reputations soar, tumble into the trash and rise mysteriously again. The good news is that quality tells in the end; and so here we are, 2 1/2 years after Vonnegut's death, celebrating new books and handsome reprints by a man who, by the time he passed on, had been a part of the liberal furniture for so long ("counter-culture icon," proclaimed the New York Times obituary) it was possible to forget he'd done a life sentence at the typewriter, fighting his suicidal tendency and instead making magic happen.
    "The only way I can regain credit for my early work is to die," Kurt Vonnegut once said, sounding more amused than worried about it. Ever the realist, ever the stoic, ever the cynic, Vonnegut got how the lit game works. Reputations soar, tumble into the...

    Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Easter, Fiction, World War II (1939-1945), Suicide

    11. Jan 3, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Tuning back in to 'White Noise'

    Don DeLillo's "White Noise" (Penguin: 336 pp., $16 paper), newly reissued in a 25th anniversary edition with superb jacket art by Michael Cho, is many different types of novel: a campus novel; the soap opera of a hilariously dysfunctional family; a disaster story; a murder story; a meditation on America's nervousness around (and obsession with) fear and dying; and a satire on trashy cultural values that is nonetheless filled with heart-stopping, and realistically rendered, moments of human radiance and recognition.
    Don DeLillo's "White Noise" (Penguin: 336 pp., $16 paper), newly reissued in a 25th anniversary edition with superb jacket art by Michael Cho, is many different types of novel: a campus novel; the soap opera of a hilariously dysfunctional family; a...

    Tags: Crimes, Don DeLillo, Murder, The Airborne Toxic Event (music group), Satire (genre)

    12. May 10, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  12. In our pages: Martin Amis

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    Martin Amis, one of Britain's best-known novelists, is familiar with controversy. Recently discussing the pressures of an aging population, he quipped that there should be euthanasia booths on street corners, causing some consternation. There was even...
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