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    Jun 15, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  1. Book news: Carlos Fuentes, Gastronomica, L.A. Kings and more

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    Though the publishing business slows down on Fridays, interesting book news does not. Guernica has a previously unpublished interview with Carlos Fuentes, who died May 15 at age 83, conducted in 2008. "I am a writer," he says. "I spend......
    2. Jul 17, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Paperback Writers: Classic Patricia Highsmith

    Guilt was Patricia Highsmith's great theme. In her books even the good know they're not innocent, and they carry an apprehension that they too will be found out. "Night was falling quickly, with visible speed like a black sea creeping over the earth," reflects Robert Forester at the beginning of <b>"The Cry of the Owl"</b> (Grove: 272 pp., $14), one of her lesser-known works from 1963 and one of her most unsettling. Which is saying plenty.
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    Guilt was Patricia Highsmith's great theme. In her books even the good know they're not innocent, and they carry an apprehension that they too will be found out. "Night was falling quickly, with visible speed like a black sea creeping over the earth,"...

    Tags: Donald Barthelme, Crime, Law and Justice, Murder, Elmore Leonard, Jonathan Franzen

    3. Aug 8, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Book review: 'Nom de Plume' by Carmela Ciuraru

    "The obvious trouble with pen names &#8230; even with the most inspired and impressive ones, was that they somehow failed to convey truly the full extent of one's literary genius," said Romain Gary, the great French filmmaker and novelist, among other things.. Here Gary, a.k.a. &#201;mile Ajar, was referring to his trouble picking out a pseudonym, one that he felt suited him well enough, considering the fame he expected.
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    "The obvious trouble with pen names … even with the most inspired and impressive ones, was that they somehow failed to convey truly the full extent of one's literary genius," said Romain Gary, the great French filmmaker and novelist, among other...

    Tags: Fiction, History, Minority Groups, Book, Gays and Lesbians

    4. Nov 19, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  4. David Cronenberg: The detail-obsessed Viggo Mortensen

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    Viggo Mortensen, star of "A Dangerous Method," has obsessive work habits, says director and collaborator David Cronenberg....
    5. Feb 27, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Book calendar events for the week of February 27, 2011

    Words & Ideas Compiled by Grace Krilanovich. SUNDAY Tamim Ansary: The author of "Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes" will discuss and sign his new book. Pacific Asia Museum, 46 N. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena. 2 p.m. Free...

    Tags: Billy Collins, University of Southern California, History (tv network), Michael Showalter, Lifestyle and Leisure

    6. Apr 12, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  6. From the Stacks -- 'Ride the Pink Horse'

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    Out of curiosity, I picked up this paperback for 50 cents at the Southern California Library’s book sale because the 1947 movie based on Dorothy B. Hughes’ novel is often mentioned as a classic film noir, and of course it’s......
    7. Dec 21, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  7. 29 literary films to fill your holidays [Updated]

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    A list of 29 top literary films, from 1982 to 2010....
    8. Dec 17, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Book review: 'Patricia Highsmith, Selected Novels and Short Stories'

    The Texas-born,<b> </b> New York-educated,<b> </b>Europe-dwelling Patricia Highsmith (1921-95), whose genre-bending fiction is hard to pigeonhole, excelled at depicting extreme emotional and psychological states &#8212; as demonstrated in "Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories," which contains her first two novels plus 13 stories, with an introduction by her most recent biographer, Joan Schenkar.
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    The Texas-born, New York-educated, Europe-dwelling Patricia Highsmith (1921-95), whose genre-bending fiction is hard to pigeonhole, excelled at depicting extreme emotional and psychological states — as demonstrated in "Patricia Highsmith: Selected...

    Tags: Salt, Graham Greene, Entertainment, Edgar Allan Poe, Music

    9. Aug 29, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Paperback Writers: Vintage early Mantel

    It may seem, thanks to her ManBooker Prize winning novel <b>'Wolf Hall'</b> (just out in paperback, Picador: 608 pp., $16), that the novelist Hilary Mantel needs no more attention; but in fact the large body of her work &#8212; and she's been publishing for more than 25 years &#8212; remains largely unknown, and unread, in this country. "Wolf Hall" inhabits the life of Thomas Cromwell, the man who wrote and rammed through the laws that created the English Reformation, enabling Henry VIII to ditch his first wife and marry Anne Boleyn. It's a story we think we know, thanks to scores of movies and TV shows, but in "Wolf Hall" Mantel makes it new, marrying our fascination with the ruthless glamour of Tudor England to her most mesmerizing fictional gift, the ability to get under the skins and into the heads of her characters, so that even seeming monsters become vivid, present, comprehensible, and we start to love them after all.
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    It may seem, thanks to her ManBooker Prize winning novel 'Wolf Hall' (just out in paperback, Picador: 608 pp., $16), that the novelist Hilary Mantel needs no more attention; but in fact the large body of her work — and she's been publishing for more...

    Tags: Hair and Nails, Television, Graham Greene, Anne Boleyn, Crime, Law and Justice

    10. Apr 4, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Dark Passages: Can you trust what you hear?

    I should admit up front that my favorite narrators tend to be unreliable. While other readers seek comfort or order, a breather from life's everyday chaos and bad news, I like having my consciousness pricked by protagonists who don't understand their motivations and actions as we do, who behave in ways that seem perfectly logical to them but utterly horrifying to others and who operate in a space of perpetual truthiness. Joan Schenkar's recent biography of one of the most gifted equilibrium-shifters, Patricia Highsmith, was so brilliant in revealing, with skin-ripping clarity, the deep, throbbing neuroses of a person capable of creating such a creature as Tom Ripley.
    I should admit up front that my favorite narrators tend to be unreliable. While other readers seek comfort or order, a breather from life's everyday chaos and bad news, I like having my consciousness pricked by protagonists who don't understand their...

    Tags: Books and Magazines, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Mystery (genre), Philosophy

    11. Jan 31, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Paperback Writers: Unlucky 'Eileen'

    Brian Moore was born in Northern Ireland, immigrated to Canada and spent much of his life living here in California, in Malibu. He wrote scripts, short stories and a string of novels, many of which, like "The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne," "Black Robe" and "The Statement," were turned into films. He worked with Alfred Hitchcock on "Torn Curtain," an experience Moore memorably described as "like washing floors."
    Brian Moore was born in Northern Ireland, immigrated to Canada and spent much of his life living here in California, in Malibu. He wrote scripts, short stories and a string of novels, many of which, like "The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne," "Black Robe"...

    Tags: Graham Greene, Republic of Ireland, Joan Didion, Restaurants, Restaurant and Catering Industry

    12. Dec 11, 2009 | Los Angeles Times

  12. Reviews this week: On Bob Dylan, scandalous women and epistolary bliss

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    This week in our pages, Kris Lindgren reviewed the new graphic novel interpretation of Bob Dylan's songs in "Bob Dylan Revisited." She's impressed with some of the art -- but might be just as happy listening to an old album.......
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