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2 out of 3 Californians like reading "a lot," survey finds
Jacket CopyA new survey says that two out of three Californians enjoy reading "a lot."... -
When Thomas Pynchon is just Tom: A remarkable collection debuts
Jacket CopyA never before published photograph of Thomas Pynchon accompanied Phyllis Gebauer's recollections of their lifelong friendship and the books he inscribed to her, which she is giving to the UCLA Extension Writing Program.... -
Will Paul Thomas Anderson direct Pynchon adaptation?
Jacket CopyPaul Thomas Anderson, the director of "Magnolia" and "There Will Be Blood," may direct an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel, "Inherent Vice," New York magazine reports. The book features a stoned private detective in a Southern California beach... -
Oscar's real Cinderella storyteller: David Seidler, screenwriter of 'The King's Speech'
The Big PictureIf anyone is living out a stranger-than-fiction Cinderella story this Oscar season, it's David Seidler, the colorful 73-year-old screenwriter of “The King's Speech.” For several months, the film has been viewed as a best picture front-runner, making... -
When coffee meets Pynchon
Jacket CopyTrystero Coffee was inspired by Thomas Pynchon's book The Crying of Lot 49.... -
"A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan
Special to the Tribune"A Visit from the Goon Squad" By Jennifer Egan Alfred A. Knopf, 277 pages, $24.95 Consider the vinyl record. Round and round it goes. Or went. Like a lot of the vintage culture encoded in Jennifer Egan's punk-rock familial saga 'A Visit from the Goon...Tags: New York, San Francisco, Health, Manhattan (New York City), Clubs and Associations
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Astral Weeks: A Grim, New World
I like it when the full import of a title is felt only at the very end of a story, or in the space just beyond -- think Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49." Laura Kasischke's seventh novel, "In a Perfect World" (Harper Perennial: 310 pp., $13.99...Tags: Health, Epidemics and Plagues, Flu, Britney Spears, Radio Industry
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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... -
Margaret Atwood's apocalyptic humor
Jacket CopyWith "The Year of the Flood," Margaret Atwood presents another story of our apocalyptic future. Reviews of "The Year of the Flood" all seem similarly amused (for the new novel has many touches of humor), admiring, perhaps also a little...... -
National Book Awards include McCann, Eggers, Vidal
Jacket CopyThe National Book Award for Fiction went to Colum McCann for his novel "Let the Great World Spin," a story of New York in 1974 that doubles as an allegory of 9/11. It was the final award at the black-tie...... -
Favorite fiction of 2009 from the L.A. Times
Jacket CopyThere are 25 books in the list of the Los Angeles Times 2009 fiction favorites. It includes some authors you might expect -- Orhan Pamuk and Alice Munro -- as well as new talents like Maile Meloy, above. LA Times...... -
10 choice weed books
Jacket CopyOn Tuesday, California moved a step closer to legalizing marijuana. The California Assembly's Public Safety Committee voted 4-3 to approve a measure that would make it legal for those 21 and older to possess up to an ounce of marijuana......
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