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    Apr 1, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  1. Ten Most Wanted

    LA Times Magazine
    A year in crime fiction, curated by Mysterious Bookshop maestro Otto Penzler...
    2. Apr 13, 2012 | Orlando Sentinel

  2. Titanic at 100: ‘A Night to Remember,’ ‘Time Tunnel,’ Molly Brown

    The TV Guy - Orlando Sentinel
    Television is marking the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster with major new programs. But the oldies still hold powerful appeal. Many Baby Boomers fondly remember the 1966 premiere of “The Time Tunnel” on ABC. That episode put two...
    3. Feb 25, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Book review: "Zift: Socialist Noir" By Vladislav Todorov

    <b>Zift</b>
    Special to the Los Angeles Times
    Zift Socialist Noir By Vladislav Todorov, translated from the Bulgarian by Joseph Benatov Paul Dry Books: 185 pp., $14.95 paper Of all the places to set a story of intrigue, Bulgaria has served as a choice exotic location for many writers, among...

    Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Book, Edmond O'Brien, Human Interest, Crimes

    4. Jan 2, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Paperback Writers: Between sea and sky

    Bruce Chatwin, the brilliant English writer and stylish nomad, died from AIDS in late 1989. His memorial service, held in a Greek Orthodox Cathedral in London on the day that Ayatollah Khomeini handed a death sentence to Chatwin's friend Salman Rushdie, was a legendary event, mobbed by fans, celebrities and hundreds of journalists. Chatwin was by then a cult &#8212; admired as much for his self-mythologizing persona and the values of independent scholarship and lonely questing that he seemed to represent as for his clipped, lapidary prose. With Chatwin, everything had to be the best: the writing, the conversation, the trip, the clothes, the Mont Blanc pens, the Aspreys ink, the notebooks that were only available from certain little Paris papeterie.
    Los Angeles Times
    Bruce Chatwin, the brilliant English writer and stylish nomad, died from AIDS in late 1989. His memorial service, held in a Greek Orthodox Cathedral in London on the day that Ayatollah Khomeini handed a death sentence to Chatwin's friend Salman Rushdie,...

    Tags: Christian Orthodoxy, Salman Rushdie, Christianity, Petroleum Industry, Ruhollah Khomeini

    5. May 2, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Dark Passages: The Anxious Fiction of Emily St. John Mandel

    Crime fiction, for good or for ill, adheres to a discrete series of states. Order out of chaos &#8212; that's the mystery novel, hard-boiled or cozy, in a nutshell. Chaos out of order &#8212; that's the ethos of noir. Those existential constraints are equal parts limiting and liberating. But when the world itself refuses to stick to these scripts (Eyjafjallaj&#246;kull, anyone?) and a healthy dose of escapism can't quite convince people that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world, something a little more ambiguous, even ambitious, is called for.
    Crime fiction, for good or for ill, adheres to a discrete series of states. Order out of chaos — that's the mystery novel, hard-boiled or cozy, in a nutshell. Chaos out of order — that's the ethos of noir. Those existential constraints are...

    Tags: Anxiety, Crime, Law and Justice, Book, U.S. Department of State, Family

    6. Aug 5, 2007 |Story| Zap2It

  6. 'Company' Man

    When actors take a role, they'll often sketch out a backstory for their characters to help them figure out why they do the things they do. No such legwork was necessary, though, for Alfred Molina's latest role in TNT's miniseries "The Company."
    Zap2It.com
    When actors take a role, they'll often sketch out a backstory for their characters to help them figure out why they do the things they do. No such legwork was necessary, though, for Alfred Molina's latest role in TNT's miniseries "The Company." "The...

    Tags: Death, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Police Investigations, Tom Hollander, Politics

    7. Aug 17, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Where's Weldon?

    The poet <b>Weldon Kees</b> was born in Beatrice, Neb., in 1914, though what's best known about him is that on July 18, 1955, his car was found abandoned with the keys still in the ignition in a parking lot on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge. Kees had often spoken of killing himself and had once planned, with James Agee, to write a book on famous suicides; together they came up with a wonderful title, "How-Not-To-and-Why-Not-To-Do-It," though the project came to nothing. Both men were too busy plotting their own deaths.
    The poet Weldon Kees was born in Beatrice, Neb., in 1914, though what's best known about him is that on July 18, 1955, his car was found abandoned with the keys still in the ignition in a parking lot on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge....

    Tags: Death, Sports, Bertolt Brecht, Entertainment, Charles Addams

    8. Nov 13, 2007 |Story| Zap2It

  8. 'Showgirls' Helmer Tackles 'Thomas Crown'

    Zap2It.com
    The tentative titled "The Thomas Crown Affair 2" is moving forward with "Showgirls" director Paul Verhoven at the helm. According to media reports, the long gestating project is based on both Eric Ambler's novel "The Light of Day" and the 1964 heist...

    Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Rene Russo, Crimes, Pierce Brosnan, Theft

    9. Jun 30, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  9. 'The Spies of Warsaw,' by Alan Furst

    During the war years in the Balkans, on those chilly nights when you counted your blessings if you had a portable generator that provided enough light to read by, Alan Furst's spy novels offered pleasant diversion for many a foreign correspondent. Furst,...

    Tags: Death, Politics, Judaism, World War II (1939-1945), Crime, Law and Justice

    10. May 11, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. 'The Way Home' by George Pelecanos

    There comes a point in a writer's career when reviewers start to look not just at the book on the "New Releases" table in the bookstore, but at the body of work as a whole. This sort of analysis usually happens when the number of potential books is dwarfed by the author's previous output; upon recent death, when literary-leaning obituarists struggle to mine some instant legacy; or years if not decades later, when those in the throes of rediscovery commit their ecstatic cries to page and pixel.
    There comes a point in a writer's career when reviewers start to look not just at the book on the "New Releases" table in the bookstore, but at the body of work as a whole. This sort of analysis usually happens when the number of potential books is...

    Tags: Death, Teen-agers, Crime, Law and Justice, Health, Hospitals and Clinics

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