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Richard Ford finds his place in 'Canada'
It's tempting to call Richard Ford a writer of place. Beginning with his first novel, 1976's "A Piece of My Heart," the 68-year-old author has tended toward the border among landscape, language and character, using setting to help drive his narratives....
Tags: Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Richard Ford, Literature, Tennessee Williams
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Most interesting comment thread of the day, courtesy Helen DeWitt
Jacket CopyNovelist Helen DeWitt takes issue with the romantic idea that a writer is a person who has to write.... -
L.A. literary salon remembers noir at Musso & Frank
Jacket CopyThe restaurant Musso & Frank is where some of L.A.'s greatest writers drank; now it celebrates that legacy with a quarterly literary salon, complete with steak and cocktails.... -
Jesmyn Ward ('Salvage the Bones') writes of Mississippi
Jesmyn Ward was struggling. Despite two master's degrees and five years of work experience, her job situation was difficult: She commuted an hour each way to a low-paying college teaching job. In her writing career, things were even worse. She sent out...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, Natural Disasters, Nursing, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Midtown
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Harry Crews dies at 76; Southern writer with darkly comic vision
Harry Crews, a rough-hewn Southerner who drew a keen following with novels that describe a Hieronymus Bosch landscape of grotesques — characters who are tossed into rattlesnake pits, walk on their hands, croon lullabies to a skull and literally...Tags: Flannery O'Connor, Sears Holdings Corp., Literature, Michael Connelly, Korean War (1950-1953)
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This Sunday: Baseball books for opening day, and the lives of novelists
Jacket CopyTo mark the opening of baseball season we have reviews of the three books on the sport as well as John Sutherland's massive "Lives of the Novelists."... -
Tracking Wallace Stegner's footprints in Vermont's earth
Wallace Stegner wrote books about the American and Canadian West, so it's understandable that people consider the longtime California resident a Western author.
Stegner, a prolific novelist, essayist, conservation advocate and professor at Stanford...Tags: Newspapers, Poetry, University of Iowa, Eudora Welty, Wallace Stegner
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Susan Spano's homecoming: Life unpacked, at long last
L.A. at HomeSusan Spano: Travel writer Susan Spano returns to New York after eight years on the road and has a happy reunion with belongings long held in storage. Her new mantra? For this world traveler, home is where the stuff is.... -
HBO renews 'Enlightened,' cancels 'Hung' and two other comedies
Show TrackerHBO renews "Enlightened," but "Hung," "Bored to Death" and "How to Make It In America" won't be returning.... -
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As I lay *&%!!*! dying? David Milch to do Faulkner for HBO
Jacket CopyAs I lay *&%!!*! dying? David Milch to adapt Nobel prizewinner William Faulkner for HBO.... -
A new bar taps L.A. literary history
Jacket CopyThe Writers Room opens Friday in a legendary writers drinking space in Hollywood....
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