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The best presents for the book nerds on your gift list
It Chooses You, by Miranda July (McSweeney's, 2011)
The filmmaker/artist/poet/fiction writer Miranda July is well-known for her movies, whose moods share a kind of charming sincerity with that of her other work. Last month, July's first attempt at...Tags: Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Patti Smith, Pauline Kael, Bronx (New York City)
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The Bad Sex in Fiction Award goes to David Guterson
Jacket Copy2011's Bad Sex in Fiction award went to David Guterson's "Ed King," a modern retelling of the Oedpius story.... -
The Bad Sex in Fiction Award goes to David Guterson's "Ed King"
Tribune NewspapersDavid Guterson has won 2011's Bad Sex in Fiction Award. The tongue-in-cheek prize was presented at a ceremony in London on Tuesday. As in years past, the award-winning author was not in attendance. Guterson was awarded the prize for writing a marathon...Tags: Lee Child, Bible, Religious Texts, Arts and Culture, Haruki Murakami
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Chicago is 'Boss' star Troy Garity's kind of town
RedEyeAfter filming NBC’s “The Playboy Club” and Starz’ “Boss” in Chicago over the summer, Troy Garity misses the city. “I’m going through total Chicago withdrawal at the moment,” Garity, who also filmed...Tags: Television, Troy Garity, Jane Fonda, Movies, Entertainment
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Herzog: I'm pretty sure Jesus wouldn't favor capital punishment
24 FramesWerner Herzog's new film "Into the Abyss" explores the morality of capital punishment.... -
From Punk to Porn: James Wolcott reminds us why the 70s were so loud, weird, smelly and perverse
James Wolcott
WSHU Presents “Join the Conversation” with the writer, blogger and cultural critic. Tuesday, Nov. 1, 7 p.m., University Commons, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, sacredheart.edu
It takes talent to pivot, the way James...Tags: Television, Pauline Kael, Robert Mapplethorpe, Patti Smith, Kentucky Fried Chicken
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The most wanted used books, according to Bookfinder
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Critic's Notebook: Under the influence of Hemingway
Los Angeles Times Book CriticFor much of the 1980s, beginning when I was in college, I used to read a Hemingway book a year. The point was not self-improvement but rather a kind of exploration: What was it, exactly, about his writing that I'd missed? I had read "The Sun Also Rises"...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Human Interest, Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, John Dos Passos
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Art and politics at the Hammer Museum
Culture MonsterMark Swed reports on a UCLA conference at the Hammer Museum on art and politics that featured French philosopher Alain Badiou.... -
Books by dudes for dudes, books by chicks for dudes
Jacket CopyEsquire's 75 books by dudes for dudes is three years old, but Joyland created a list of 250 books for dudes by chicks.... -
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Linking religion and culture
Roger Chapman
Title: Associate professor of American history, Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm Beach.
Other job experience: Former reporter for weekly newspaper in Maryland; Former Bible and social science teacher at Inter-American School,...Tags: Ernest Hemingway, Occupations, Human Interest, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Wheaton College
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