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Book review: 'House of Holes' by Nicholson Baker
Los Angeles Times Book CriticHouse of Holes A Book of Raunch Nicholson Baker Simon & Schuster: 262 pp., $25 Nicholson Baker wasn't kidding when he subtitled "House of Holes," his new novel, "A Book of Raunch." Indeed, it's a bona fide filth-fest, so unrelentingly graphic that...Tags: Pornography, Literature, Social Issues, Arts and Culture, Book
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Book review: 'Encounter' by Milan Kundera
Special to the Los Angeles TimesEncounter Essays Milan Kundera, translated from the French by Linda Asher Harper: 192 pp., $23.99 "Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself?" Milan Kundera asks this question in writing about the painter Francis Bacon,...Tags: Milan (Italy), Behavioral Conditions, Anatole France, Health, Arts
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Summer reading: 60 titles for 92 days
JUNE
Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl
Daniel Pinkwater
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pinkwater brings a magical realist perspective to YA fiction in the third volume of the series that begins with "The Yggyssey" and "The Neddiad."
The Clock Without a...Tags: Dave Eggers, Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, The Beatles (music group), John Waters
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Summer reading list
Brand XHaving trouble deciding what to read this summer? Let the Los Angeles Times' book editors help with a selection of forthcoming titles. JUNE The Clock Without a Face Gus Twintig (McSweeney's) This fable includes riddles and a real-life treasure hunt:... -
New in paperback: Wit, elegance and war
Barbara Smit: "Sneaker Wars" (Harper Perennial) Two great sneaker companies, Adidas and Puma, were created by two brothers who began as partners and later turned into fierce rivals. Who knew? Smit limns out the story of Adi and Rudi Dassler, who...Tags: Gaming, Dave Eggers, Anne Bancroft, Death, Bono
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'Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism' by Bernard-Henri Levy
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIT IS impossible to imagine any country but France that could produce Bernard-Henri Levy. BHL, as he is usually known in his native land, manages to bestride the worlds of philosophy, politics, human rights activism and high fashion with equal aplomb,...Tags: Crimes, Behavioral Conditions, Demonstration, Human Rights, Islam
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'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh' by Michael Chabon
"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: Gays and Lesbians, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Hair and Nails, England, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania)
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Slaughterhouse 90210: Where high meets low
Jacket CopySlaugterhouse 90210, a tumblr blog and column at Details, takes images from pop culture and captions them, hysterically, with literary quotes. A picture of Crockett (Don Johnson) and Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas) from "Miami Vice" is accompanied by... -
Hollywood liberals under fire: The Polanski debate gets political
The Big PictureIt was surely only a matter of time. The noisy partisan divide that seems to infect everything in America today -- from what health care plan you want to what car you drive -- has surfaced again. As soon as...... -
Forgotten treasures of the last century, from 25 writers
Jacket CopyIn 1999, the L.A. Times asked dozens of writers to look back at the prior century and share books they considered lost treasures -- books they loved that had slipped out of sight. Although the authors were formidable -- including...... -
Israel's Haaretz newspaper lets novelists take on the news
Jacket CopyDuring what has been one of the toughest news weeks for Israel in recent memory, daily newspaper Haaretz has let novelists and cultural critics step into its pages. The invitations to Margaret Atwood, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Jonathan Safran Foer, Milan... -
John Mayer: The writer behind the controversial Playboy interview speaks out
Pop & HissThe week's biggest pop story isn't the "We Are the World" remake or the new Erykah Badu single -- even if it should be -- but the fallout from John Mayer's recent interview with veteran music writer Rob Tannenbaum in......
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