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Off the Shelf: Adventures in language, in the land beyond 'literal'
" 'I must not,' said Jane, 'think of rats.' And proceeded to think of them as hard as she could." Bland, boring sentence, right? When I tell class after class of writing students that this one sentence -- plucked many decades ago from a children's book...Tags: Nadine Gordimer, Judaism, Family, Christianity, Los Angeles
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Is American fiction dead?
Jacket CopyYes, J.D. Salinger is dead; he died Jan. 27, exactly a year after the death of John Updike. And yes, we lost Kurt Vonnegut and Norman Mailer in 2007. But do four deceased literary lions constitute a death sentence for...... -
Patrick White's cruel visionaries
Patrick White, the first great novelist to come out of Australia, was born in 1912, won the Nobel Prize in 1973, died in 1990 and his work promptly dropped from fashion. His style of narrative-driven psychological modernism seemed outmoded, perhaps,...Tags: Raymond Carver, Romance (genre), Nobel Prize Awards, Patrick White, Schindler's List (movie)
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John Updike dies at 76; Pulitzer-winning author
John Updike, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction whose novels and short stories exposed an undercurrent of ambivalence and disappointment in small-town, middle-class America, died Tuesday. He was 76.
Updike's death from lung cancer was...Tags: Adults, Diseases and Illnesses, Fiction, Judaism, Harvard University
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For better or worse, John Updike produced a nearly endless stream of work
![For David Foster Wallace, he was one of "the Great Male Narcissists." Martin Amis declared that the last section of his 1989 memoir "Self-Consciousness" was "to my knowledge the best thing yet written on what it is like to get older: age, and the only end of age." Nicholson Baker celebrated his "assured touch, [his] adjectival resourcefulness."](http://www.latimes.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2009-01/44738031-29161926-12563.gif "For David Foster Wallace, he was one of \"the Great Male Narcissists.\" Martin Amis declared that the last section of his 1989 memoir \"Self-Consciousness\" was \"to my knowledge the best thing yet written on what it is like to get older: age, and the only end of age.\" Nicholson Baker celebrated his \"assured touch, [his] adjectival resourcefulness.\"")
For David Foster Wallace, he was one of "the Great Male Narcissists." Martin Amis declared that the last section of his 1989 memoir "Self-Consciousness" was "to my knowledge the best thing yet written on what it is like to get older: age, and the only end...Tags: Education, Diseases and Illnesses, University of California, Los Angeles, Literature, Health
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Gore Vidal's 'Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir'
IN an era when droves of American writers have deserted the novel for the cozier pleasures of the confessional -- and when pouring your heart out, preferably on television, has become a national sport -- Gore Vidal remains an unlikely memoirist. Long ago,...Tags: Romance (genre), Fiction, Tennessee Williams, Cheshire, Federico Fellini
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'Humboldt's Gift' by Saul Bellow
"Humboldt's Gift," first published in 1975 and just re-issued (Penguin: 512 pp., $16), is both a crazy mess of a novel and an abiding testament to the vital exuberance of Saul Bellow's genius. "The book of ballads published by Von Humboldt Fleisher in the...Tags: Delmore Schwartz, Poetry, Death, Robert F. Kennedy, White House
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The Gen X poster boy's endless ennui
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn his 1985 breakout novel, "Less Than Zero," Bret Easton Ellis, then all of 21 years old, created young, jaded Angelenos who just didn't care about anything: They recounted cocaine scores and semi-anonymous sex in the same tone with which they lamented...Tags: MTV (tv network), Los Angeles Times, Brad Renfro, Fiction, Arts and Culture
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Picking a winner? Harder than you think!
Special to the TimesBy 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: Education, Fiction, New York City, Justice System, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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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...Tags: Connecticut, England, Christopher Hitchens, Don DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy
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Leaving art out of history
How did George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" reflect both the Jewish and African American experience in America? Why was Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" so influential for modern fiction and journalism? What was Abstract Expressionism, and why did...Tags: Education, Movies, Abraham Lincoln, Judaism, Marilyn Monroe
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Sister Carrie
Tribune staff reporterFrank Doubleday publishes Theodore Dreiser's novel that helps establish an enduring Chicago tradition: fiction in the raw, tawdry but compassionate. Published on this date, Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" was among the most auspicious debuts in...Tags: Fiction, Bars and Clubs, Sherwood Anderson, Dining and Drinking, Sinclair Lewis
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