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Dark Passages: Dissecting the Detectives, Part 1
Note: This is the first of a two-part column on the current state of contemporary detective fiction. This month: series characters as viewed by their creators.
In an essay for the Wall Street Journal last spring, Alexander McCall Smith explains the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Barnes & Noble, Inc., Stephenie Meyer, Tribeca, Charlie Parker
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'The Talented Miss Highsmith' by Joan Schenkar
!["She was a horrible human being," recalls Otto Penzler, one of her publishers. It's an apt eulogy for a novelist whom Graham Greene, rather more charitably, dubbed "the poet of apprehension," a 20th century demiurge whose "world we enter each time with a sense of personal danger, with the head half turned over the shoulder." The first words of Joan Schenkar's splendid, sinewy new biography, "The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith," concede the point: "She wasn't nice," Schenkar admits; "She was rarely polite." Yet the "toxic brilliance of [her] trail goes on glowing" 15 years after her death in 1995 -- when "she drove a last, devoted visitor from her hospital room and then died unobserved."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-12/50925787-07111538-187104.gif "\"She was a horrible human being,\" recalls Otto Penzler, one of her publishers. It's an apt eulogy for a novelist whom Graham Greene, rather more charitably, dubbed \"the poet of apprehension,\" a 20th century demiurge whose \"world we enter each time with a sense of personal danger, with the head half turned over the shoulder.\" The first words of Joan Schenkar's splendid, sinewy new biography, \"The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith,\" concede the point: \"She wasn't nice,\" Schenkar admits; \"She was rarely polite.\" Yet the \"toxic brilliance of [her] trail goes on glowing\" 15 years after her death in 1995 -- when \"she drove a last, devoted visitor from her hospital room and then died unobserved.\"")
"She was a horrible human being," recalls Otto Penzler, one of her publishers. It's an apt eulogy for a novelist whom Graham Greene, rather more charitably, dubbed "the poet of apprehension," a 20th century demiurge whose "world we enter each time with...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Arts and Culture, Graham Greene, Anthony Minghella, Biography (genre)
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'The Monster in the Box' by Ruth Rendell
At a drinks party in London last summer, Ruth Rendell seemed to let slip to a reporter from the Telegraph that "The Monster in the Box" would be the last in her long series of detective novels featuring Chief Inspector Reg Wexford.
The report seemed...Tags: Death, Crime, Law and Justice, Mystery (genre), Stranger Than Fiction, Criminals
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New in paperback: Richard Yates, Denis Johnson, Charles Baxter and more
Barry Day (ed): "The Letters of Noel Coward" (Vintage) "The human race is a let down. It thinks it's progressed but it hasn't. It thinks it's risen above the primeval slime but it hasn't -- it's still wallowing in it!," says Gilda in Noel Coward's...Tags: Samuel Beckett, Graham Greene, Book, Charles Johnson (football, defensive end), Noel Coward
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Smiley's model
James Bond may be the prototypical English spy, but more discerning readers know that John Le Carré's novels come as close as possible to depicting a "true" portrait of the men and women who populate British intelligence. His most indelible creation,...Tags: Career and Workplace, Crime, Law and Justice, John Le Carre, Murder, Book
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Anthony Minghella, director with an old soul
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWhen attempting to take in the rather shocking news of the death of British-born director, writer and producer Anthony Minghella at age 54, it's tough not to feel in part the passing of a unique creative force that connected audiences to another era. ....Tags: Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Film Festivals, Anthony Minghella, BBC
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Harvey Weinstein remembers friend Anthony Minghella
Special to The TimesStudio head and producer Harvey Weinstein remembers his friend and colleague, director Anthony Minghella ("The English Patient," "Cold Mountain"). A memorial service for Minghella is being held today in London. The memories are vivid; snatches of...Tags: BBC, Family, Opera (genre), HBO (tv network), Entertainment
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Reasons to shiver: New in paperback
"The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. III" edited by Philip Gourevitch (Picador) "Have you found any professional criticism of your work illuminating or helpful? Edmund Wilson, for example?" asks Julian Jebb, the guy sent by the Paris Review to interview...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues, Bullfighting, Ted Hughes, Edmund Wilson
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'Sunnyside: A Novel' by Glen David Gold
Sunnyside
A Novel
Glen David Gold
Alfred A. Knopf: 576 pp., $26.95
Glen David Gold's massive new novel begins with a trick, a coup, the literary equivalent of sleight of hand. For a writer whose first book, "Carter Beats the Devil" (2001), concerned...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Chills, Celebrities, Fever, World War I (1914-1918)
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'Road Dogs': More Leonard made for Hollywood
1. Visualize Harry Dean Stanton.
Head north out of Detroit on I-75 past 8 Mile Road and you get to Bloomfield Hills, the wealthy suburb where Elmore Leonard lives. Although he was born in New Orleans in 1925, the 83-year-old novelist grew up middle-class...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Organized Crime, Family, Piracy, Entertainment
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Oscar Isaac puts 'January' on calendar: 'Drive' thesp in talks to star opposite Viggo Mortensen
VarietyOscar Isaac continues to build on an already busy slate as the "Inside Llewyn Davis" star is in negotiations to star in "Two Faces of January" opposite Viggo Mortensen. Isaac will reteam with "Drive" scribe Hossein Amini, who adapted the script and will...Tags: Viggo Mortensen, Ethan Coen
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Kirsten Dunst joins 'Two Faces of 'January': Studiocanal, Working Title team to produce thriller from 'Drive' scribe
VarietyMADRID -- Two of Europe's primo production players, Studiocanal and Working Title, are teaming to produce thriller "Two Faces of January," the directorial debut of "Drive" scribe Hossein Amini. Kirsten Dunst has joined Viggo Mortensen and Oscar Isaac ("...Tags: Anthony Minghella, Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst
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