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Review: Jonathan Franzen's 'Farther Away' wants to bridge distance
Tribune newspapers-------------------- Farther Away Essays Jonathan Franzen Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 322 pp., $26 -------------------- I didn't much like Jonathan Franzen's essay "Farther Away" when I read it a year ago in the New Yorker. A complicated mishmash of a...Tags: Alice Munro, Arts and Culture, Authors, Donald Antrim, David Foster Wallace
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Bookmark: Cover hides what's really inside
Her publisher surely meant well, but the cover of Anne Tyler's new novel "The Beginner's Goodbye" (Knopf) is all wrong. The cover — a pair of elegant cups and saucers displayed against a doily-white background — might reasonably be...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Fiction, William Hurt, Entertainment Events, Anne Tyler
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author to speak Nov. 15
jenb@amnews.comOne of America’s leading novelists will spend time on the Centre College campus, reading from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “Olive Kitteridge,” and giving a class at the college library. Elizabeth Strout’s award-winning...Tags: Journalism, Los Angeles Times, Anita Brookner, Chicago Tribune, Charlotte
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Favorites 2009: Fiction and poetry
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Doubleday)
A struggling young writer in 1920s Barcelona accepts a lucrative, diabolical assignment commissioned by a shadowy client.
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker (Simon & Schuster)
Meet Paul Chowder, a poet,...Tags: Family, Maine, Genesis (music group), Hart Crane, Nobel Prize Awards
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Nobel natterings: let the barfight begin
Tribune cultural criticLet the bar fights begin: Mario Vargas Llosa? You gotta be kidding me. Of all the categories in which Nobel Prizes are awarded, none gets the blood going quite like the literary one. It’s a little tricky to have an opinion about the physics or...Tags: Human Interest, The Ohio State University, Awards and Prizes, Toni Morrison, Education
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Writers Salvador Plascencia and Michael Jaime-Becerra share a city and common inspiration: El Monte
Aside from their proximity in age, and the fulsome praise they got for their debut novels, Salvador Plascencia and Michael Jaime-Becerra would appear to have little in common as writers.
Plascencia's "The People of Paper," which was published in 2005...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Genesis (music group), Charlie Kaufman, Rita Hayworth, John Barth
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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...... -
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...... -
Book Review: Treasured memories of a beloved brother
Anton Chekhov
A Brother's Memoir
Mikhail Chekhov, translated from the Russian by Eugene Alper
Palgrave Macmillan: 230 pp., $25
Anton Chekhov's life is well documented: When he died of consumption in 1904 at age 44, he was honored all over the world....Tags: Moscow (Russia), University of Michigan, Alice Munro, Lungs and Airways, Health
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'Love and Summer: A Novel' by William Trevor
Love and Summer
A Novel
William Trevor
Viking: 212 pp., $25.95
That William Trevor has not yet received the Nobel Prize in Literature strikes me as a shame. Surely his absence from the list of laureates has more to do with the politics of national...Tags: University of Michigan, Arts and Culture, Awards and Prizes, Nobel Prize Awards, Robert Frost
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'Brooklyn' by Colm Tóibín
Brooklyn A Novel Colm Tóibín Scribner: 272 pp., $25 Colm Tóibín leads a generation of Irish novelists, born in the 1950s, who have achieved wide international readership. Sebastian Barry, Roddy Doyle, Neil Jordan and Patrick McCabe have long been...Tags: Family, Los Angeles Times, James Joyce, Rituals, Edna O'Brien
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Felicia's Journey
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday November 19, 1999 With "Felicia's Journey," Canada's masterful and ever-venturesome Atom Egoyan continues to explore the ways in which people are damaged by terrible loss and loneliness and how they strive to overcome them. This...Tags: Penelope Cruz, Kevin Pollak, Bob Hoskins, Elaine Cassidy, Entertainment
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