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The problem with David Mamet
Critic's Notebook: The dramatist who used to regularly scorch the stage with complex stories has let his anti-P.C. rage blunt his work. What in the world has happened to David Mamet? The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Glengarry Glen Ross," a modern...
Tags: Al Pacino, Anna Karenina (movie), Philosophy, Phil Spector, Radio
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A rumination on books not yet read
Sometimes I wonder how many books I've read in my four decades. Thousands, anyway — maybe tens of thousands — since the first one, about a choo-choo, when I was not quite 3. Right up to Anne Carson's “Autobiography of Red,”...Tags: Poetry, Chicago Tribune, Literature, David Foster Wallace, Lord Byron
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'Book of My Lives': Aleksander Hemon's remarkable tale
Aleksandar Hemon landed in the United States two decades ago, January 1992. He was 27, a young Bosnian journalist from Sarajevo arriving on a one-month visa, arranged through a cultural exchange program sponsored by the State Department. Just after he...
Tags: Tribune Tower, Authors, Northwestern University, Soccer, Newspaper and Magazine
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Richard Stern dies at 84
To the literary world, Richard Stern was primarily a novelist, author of "Golk" (1960), "Stitch" (1965), "The Books in Fred Hampton's Apartment" (1973), "Other Men's Daughters" (1973) and "Natural Shocks" (1978) , among others, along with a host of superb...
Tags: Joseph Heller, Authors, David Brooks, Fiction, The Philadelphia Inquirer
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'The Orchardist' inspires a rumination on the role of place in literature
Hi, my name is Alan, and I'm drunk with landscape. I've just finished teaching a writing workshop in how to deploy setting in modern fiction, mainly, the modern novel, so I couldn't easily get the subject off my mind in any case. And now, just as the...
Tags: Authors, Yosemite National Park, Manufacturing and Engineering, John Dos Passos, New York City
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Biblioracle: Blurb this, blurb that
Being a writer comes bundled with numerous small humiliations, but one of the worst, in my experience, is approaching other writers for blurbs of my own books. You know blurbs, those pithy little sentences that grace the backs (or sometimes the fronts)...
Tags: Authors, Chicago Tribune, Book
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Nathan Englander examines identity
Every journalist's nightmare is the interview with the subject who responds to questions with one-sentence (or even one-word) answers. Fortunately, the writer Nathan Englander — who was in Chicago recently as the inaugural Crown Speaker Series...Tags: Authors, Newspaper and Magazine, Nathan Englander, USA Today, The Holocaust (1934-1945)
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James Wood champions realism in new book of essays
There's a certain type of reader — often also a writer, with a leaf-fring'd MFA — who has it all figured out. The realist novel is a scam, a factory producing cardboard imitations of bourgeois life. This is the person at the party who mentions...Tags: Authors, Paul Auster, Chicago Tribune, John Updike, James Joyce
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Moving up and out
In 51 years, no concussions. Despite low-hanging pipes that loop across ceilings and snake down walls, work spaces with clearances barely 5 feet high, and a tight maze full of blind spots where customers could easily collide — the Seminary Co-op...
Tags: Frank Lloyd Wright, Barack Obama, Entertainment Events, Medical Specialization, Manhattan (New York City)
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Attenberg's domestic tragedy
Jami Attenberg’s family tragedy arrives bearing the imprimatur of Jonathan Franzen, who has praised the author’s “sympathy” and “artistry.” Franzen’s endorsement makes a fair amount of sense. True, "The...
Tags: Diabetes, Authors, Overweight, Chicago Tribune, Jonathan Franzen
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Louis Simpson dies at 89; Pulitzer-winning poet
"A poet," Louis Simpson once wrote, "should wish for enough unhappiness to keep him writing." Simpson may not have wished for trouble, but he kept writing for 60 years — spare, powerful poems about war, infidelity, suburban alienation and other...
Tags: Columbia University, Entertainment Events, Alzheimer's Disease, Poetry, W.H. Auden
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Michigan author Elmore Leonard wins prestigious book award
BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Michigan (AP) — For a man who built his career on word economy, the title is pretty darned long — The National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Still, Elmore Leonard says he's...
Tags: Authors, Manufacturing and Engineering, Fiction, Timothy Olyphant, The New York Times
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