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Remote, picturesque Mazama, Wash., to host book festival
Jacket CopyA new book festival will launch this summer in a hard-to-reach but beautiful part of Washington state.... -
Philip Roth to headline National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Jacket CopyThe lineup for the 2012 National Book Festival in Washington DC has been announced.... -
'Mad Women' by Jane Maas
"Does she or doesn't she?" — the innuendo-filled catchphrase for Clairol from 1956 easily could have been conceived by "Mad Men's" Don Draper. It was not, of course, but rather was penned by one of the few female copywriters of her day. Jane Maas,...
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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.... -
Handicapping the Nobel Prize in literature: a guide
Jacket CopyWho is Assia Djebar and why is she considered among the top contenders for the Nobel Prize in literature? This handy guide can help.... -
AFI Fest 2011: The literate anxieties of 'The Color Wheel'
24 FramesA ruefully acid-dipped send-up of the indie family comedy, "The Color Wheel" plays Saturday and Monday as part of AFI Fest. It will also screen on the UCLA campus on Tuesday as a double bill with Perry's first feature, 2009's "Impolex."... -
Hans Keilson dies at 101; author fled Nazis, recently drew great acclaim
Hans Keilson was a newly minted physician in the mid-1930s when the persecution began. As a Jew in Hitler's Germany, he was stripped of the right to practice medicine. A writer, he soon lost that identity too: His autobiographical first novel was pulped...Tags: Politics, Netherlands, Jorge Luis Borges, Nazi Party, William Faulkner
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The birth of a Twitter trend: #replacebooktitleswithbacon
Jacket CopyLots of great book titles with bacon! And if you've seen too many go by on Twitter lately, blame Carolyn Kellogg and Elissa Schappell.... -
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.... -
'Last Night in Twisted River' by John Irving
Last Night in Twisted River
A Novel
John Irving
Random House: 558 pp., $28
The opening passages of "Last Night in Twisted River" recycle John Irving's signature themes at such dizzy speed, it's as though the author were ticking boxes. New England?...Tags: Don DeLillo, Arts and Culture, Family, Chicago Bears, John Irving
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2011 PEN/Faulkner Award finalists announced
Jacket CopyThe five finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction were announced Wednesday, and included National Book Award winner "Lords of Misrule" by Jaimy Gordon. Southern California writer Eric Puchner's "Model Home" is the only other traditionally...
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