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    Oct 23, 2005 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. An uneasy accord

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    LAST year, one of Canada's most prestigious museums approached the cartoonist Seth, whose work combines realistic, character-based storytelling with a muted, nostalgic visual style reminiscent of Edward Hopper, about a show of contemporary artists who use...

    Tags: Philip Guston, David Cronenberg, Museum of Modern Art, History, Animation (genre)

    2. Jun 22, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Two timeless, Depression-era novels from Edward Anderson

    Edward Anderson had a strange and sad career. He was born in Texas in 1905 and grew up in Oklahoma, serving his apprenticeship as a journalist on a small paper in Ardmore, Okla. Restless, he worked as a deckhand on a freighter, plied his fists as a prizefighter, had some small success as a musician and, when the Great Depression of the 1930s hit, roamed the roads and rails, learning the life of the hobo. This crucial experience led to fiction, and to his first novel, "Hungry Men" (University of Oklahoma Press, currently out of print, but with plenty of copies available on Amazon), which in 1933 caused the Saturday Review of Literature to pronounce him the heir to Hemingway and Faulkner.
    Edward Anderson had a strange and sad career. He was born in Texas in 1905 and grew up in Oklahoma, serving his apprenticeship as a journalist on a small paper in Ardmore, Okla. Restless, he worked as a deckhand on a freighter, plied his fists as a...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Juvenile Delinquency, Great Depression (1929), History, Death

    3. Nov 26, 2006 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Picking a winner? Harder than you think!

    Special to the Times
    By Marianne Wiggins The winners of the National Book Awards were announced this month -- did anyone notice? Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, Tony, Golden Globe: award shows deemed worthy of TV. But what about the poor relation at the table -- books? Anybody want to...

    Tags: William Faulkner, Thomas Pynchon, Golden Globe Awards, Columbia University, Justice System

    4. Oct 31, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. 'Promenade of the Gods' by Koji Suzuki

    Toward the end of "Promenade of the Gods," Japanese novelist Koji Suzuki pens one of those unfortunate sentences that invite reviewers to bludgeon him with his own pronouncements. "When it came to injecting a broad story into a person's head," Suzuki writes, "a vividly descriptive writing style was best."
    Toward the end of "Promenade of the Gods," Japanese novelist Koji Suzuki pens one of those unfortunate sentences that invite reviewers to bludgeon him with his own pronouncements. "When it came to injecting a broad story into a person's head," Suzuki...

    Tags: Fiction, Entertainment, Japan, Naomi Watts, Cults and Sects

    5. Sep 14, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Philip Roth, on writing and being ticked off

    IN PERSON, 75-year-old Philip Roth seems anything but indignant. Seated on a couch in the inner sanctum of his agent's office, he is soft-spoken, prone to long, thoughtful pauses. Even his clothing -- khaki pants, brown shoes, an Oxford shirt with a light check -- is almost strikingly nondescript. Where, one wonders, is the fire-breathing ventriloquist of "Portnoy's Complaint" or the self-reflexive vaudevillian of the Zuckerman trilogy?
    IN PERSON, 75-year-old Philip Roth seems anything but indignant. Seated on a couch in the inner sanctum of his agent's office, he is soft-spoken, prone to long, thoughtful pauses. Even his clothing -- khaki pants, brown shoes, an Oxford shirt with a light...

    Tags: Movies, Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw, Korean War (1950-1953), Sherwood Anderson

    6. Nov 9, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh' by Michael Chabon

    <b>"The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" </b>was first published back in 1988 and immediately tagged a "brat pack" novel, causing its author, the then preposterously young Michael Chabon (he was still only in his early 20s) to be spoken of in the same breath as Bret Easton Ellis, Jay McInerney and Tama Janowitz -- admirable enough writers whose careers, it's fair to say, he has by now wholly eclipsed. Viewed in hindsight, though, "Pittsburgh" belongs to a more familiar category. It's a coming-of-age story, and a classic in that genre, the chronicle of a single summer, a structure that Chabon, always eager to flaunt his influences rather than show any anxiety about them, borrowed, lifted (whatever), from "The Great Gatsby."
    "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" was first published back in 1988 and immediately tagged a "brat pack" novel, causing its author, the then preposterously young Michael Chabon (he was still only in his early 20s) to be spoken of in the same breath as Bret...

    Tags: Raymond Carver, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Hair and Nails, England, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania)

    7. Sep 2, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Salinger, Pynchon & Co.: When writers are recluses

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    They wait like pilgrims, queuing silently, bearing volumes for inscription and awaiting a chance to touch the hem of his garment. They're not Franciscans approaching Assisi but earnest readers rushing bookstores and cultural temples for word -- wisdom,...

    Tags: Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison, Greta Garbo, Alice Munro, YouTube

    8. Mar 8, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. John Cheever: New volumes spotlight his life and work

    "I shall not, for example, try to evoke a rhetorical chiaroscuro of an intellect suspended in the twilight of the last divine monarchy, exposed to the philosophies of anarchy, communism and socialism, stricken by a loss of free speech; an intelligence illuminated as often by Paris and London as by Moscow, the flower of the clash between Aristotelian and Marxist thought. I shall not speak of Chekhov in these terms because I think he would not like it."
    "I shall not, for example, try to evoke a rhetorical chiaroscuro of an intellect suspended in the twilight of the last divine monarchy, exposed to the philosophies of anarchy, communism and socialism, stricken by a loss of free speech; an intelligence...

    Tags: Norman Mailer, Family, Nature, Wildlife, Alice Munro

    9. Apr 13, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Jacket Copy

    Shiver me timbers R.L. Stine, author of the beloved "Goosebumps" series of creepy, crawly stories, is heading to "HorrorLand." The ghoulish theme park will be the springboard for 12 new tales, with Scholastic Books planning to release the first two...

    Tags: Sports Illustrated, Motorvehicle Accidents, Primo Levi, NPR, Poetry

    10. Jul 22, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. His own brand

    Almost 50 years ago, in 1959, Philip Roth published "Goodbye, Columbus," a coming-of-age love story that was short, sharp, tender and pitch-perfect, and won the National Book Award. Few writers have launched a career so auspiciously. Roth, of course, went on to win pretty much every other literary prize going, achieving almost uncontrollable celebrity with his 1969 novel "Portnoy's Complaint." Here, obviously, was a big career.
    Almost 50 years ago, in 1959, Philip Roth published "Goodbye, Columbus," a coming-of-age love story that was short, sharp, tender and pitch-perfect, and won the National Book Award. Few writers have launched a career so auspiciously. Roth, of course, went...

    Tags: Saul Bellow, Christopher Hitchens, Awards and Prizes, Cormac McCarthy, England

    11. Jul 11, 2001 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalists Announced

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    Tags: Elections, David Baltimore, Arts and Culture, Society, Yale University

    12. Sep 12, 2004 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Fertile imagination in Iowa

    Times Staff Writer
    On a sunny Sunday in June, I found myself at the Field of Dreams, watching as the pinstripe-clad Ghost Players baseball team appeared out of a cornfield. Wearing 1919 Chicago White Sox uniforms, they emerged from the corn just as the ghost team did in...

    Tags: Movies, Chicago White Sox, Family, Hotels and Accommodations, Christianity

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