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    Oct 1, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  1. Philip Roth talks to David L. Ulin

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    In Sunday’s Arts & Books, Times book critic David L. Ulin visits with Philip Roth, whose 31st book, the novel "Nemesis" -- which involves a polio epidemic in 1940s Newark, N.J. -- comes out Tuesday. During the conversation, Roth touched......
    2. Oct 4, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  2. Is Cormac McCarthy really headed for the Nobel?

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    On Monday, news started buzzing that Cormac McCarthy, chronicler of a blasted and violent early American West and, more recently, a dystopic frozen future, might be under consideration for the Nobel Prize in Literature, whose announcement is planned for...
    3. Oct 7, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  3. David Bowie's new book 'Bowie: Object' rocks the Frankfurt Book Fair

    Pop & Hiss
    One of the hottest properties making the rounds at that annual festival of literary wheeling and dealing, the Frankfurt Book Fair, isn’t some tome by the hot young author du jour. It’s a hard-to-classify work of nonfiction by a veteran......
    4. Oct 3, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. A conversation with Philip Roth

    Perhaps one of the keys to aging as a writer, Philip Roth is saying, is how one engages with calamity. Certainly, that's an issue in his latest novel, "Nemesis" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 280 pp., $26), which involves a polio epidemic in the Jewish Weequahic neighborhood of Newark, N.J., in the summer of 1944. "I was making a list of subjects I had lived through that I've never written about," the author explains, sitting in a small conference room at the Manhattan offices of his publisher, long fingers steepled before him, voice smooth and understated as if worn down a little bit by time. "There were quite a few, and when I thought polio, I began to wonder how to treat it. I was born in 1933, so I lived through the polio scare for many years."
    Los Angeles Times Book Critic
    Perhaps one of the keys to aging as a writer, Philip Roth is saying, is how one engages with calamity. Certainly, that's an issue in his latest novel, "Nemesis" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 280 pp., $26), which involves a polio epidemic in the Jewish...

    Tags: Disasters, Judaism, Fiction, The Ghost Writer (movie), Physical Therapists

    5. Oct 27, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  5. Apatow gets funny (mostly) for McSweeney's and 826LA

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    Judd Apatow has edited an anthology titled "I Found This Funny," coming out Nov. 1, which benefits 826 National. It's kind of a funny humor anthology because some of its stories aren't funny at all. Yes, it includes pieces by......
    6. Nov 27, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  6. Michael Hiltzik: The Kindle as context

    Money & Company
    Technological revolutions always get some people thinking about what we are losing by discarding the old technology, rather than what we gain with the new. As my Sunday column observes, this process is already taking place with the advent of......
    7. Aug 9, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. The lost art of reading

    Sometime late last year -- I don't remember when, exactly -- I noticed I was having trouble sitting down to read. That's a problem if you do what I do, but it's an even bigger problem if you're the kind of person I am. Since I discovered reading, I've always been surrounded by stacks of books. I read my way through camp, school, nights, weekends; when my girlfriend and I backpacked through Europe after college graduation, I had to buy a suitcase to accommodate the books I picked up along the way. For her, the highlight of the trip was the man in Florence who offered a tour of the Uffizi. For me, it was the serendipity of stumbling across a London bookstall that had once been owned by the Scottish writer Alexander Trocchi, whose work, then as now, I adored. After we got married four years later, we spent part of our honeymoon in Dollarton, outside Vancouver, British Columbia, visiting the beach where "Under the Volcano" author Malcolm Lowry had lived for more than a decade with his wife Marjorie in a squatter's shack.
    Sometime late last year -- I don't remember when, exactly -- I noticed I was having trouble sitting down to read. That's a problem if you do what I do, but it's an even bigger problem if you're the kind of person I am. Since I discovered reading, I've...

    Tags: Death, Culture, Arts and Culture, William James, Simone Weil

    8. Dec 26, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

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

    Letters
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    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: Edmund Wilson, Nobel Prize Awards, Alfred Kazin, Crime, Law and Justice, Ralph Ellison

    9. Mar 1, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  9. Streep, James Taylor, Quincy Jones, Sonny Rollins, Van Cliburn, Philip Roth among national arts and humanities medalists

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    National Medal of Arts, Humanities winners include Streep, Quincy Jones, James Taylor, Sonny Rollins, Van Cliburn and Philip Roth...
    10. Sep 11, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. PASSINGS: Larry Totah, Rita Bronowski, Thomas Guinzburg

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    LARRY TOTAH L.A. architect and designer Larry Totah, 55, a Los Angeles architect and designer who created the look of retail boutiques, restaurants, furniture and home furnishings, died Sept. 3 at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center. He had...

    Tags: Surgery, Newspaper and Magazine, Arts and Culture, Hospitals and Clinics, Dining and Drinking

    11. Mar 1, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  11. Harper Lee to receive National Medal of Arts

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    The new National Medal of Arts & Humanities Medal honorees include writers Harper Lee, Joyce Carol Oates, Philip Roth and poets Donald Hall and Wendell Berry....
    12. Mar 2, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  12. 2011 PEN/Faulkner Award finalists announced

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    The 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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