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    Apr 30, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  1. L.A. Times Book Prize winner Jennifer Egan and other fiction writers debate the boundaries of form

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    A report from the 2011 LA Times Festival of Books on the panel "breaking Boundaries" with Jennifer Egan, Olga Grushin, Benjamin Hale and Frederick Reiken....
    2. May 2, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Festival of Books' diverse offerings

    Poets read to rapt audiences, and authors of fiction tried to explain the creative process. Celebrity chefs lured big crowds to sit under a hot sun, and mystery writers answered questions in SRO auditoriums. There was something for almost everyone at the 16th annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, held this past weekend on the USC campus. What follows is a sampling of reports on the festival from the Jacket Copy blog.
    Poets read to rapt audiences, and authors of fiction tried to explain the creative process. Celebrity chefs lured big crowds to sit under a hot sun, and mystery writers answered questions in SRO auditoriums. There was something for almost everyone at...

    Tags: Lincoln Park Zoo, Dave Eggers, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, Health and Safety at Work

    3. Apr 25, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. 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.
    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: Marc Chagall, World War II (1939-1945), Los Angeles Times, Genesis (music group), Cheech Marin

    4. May 25, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. His wit was hard-boiled

    WE think we know Damon Runyon, and we might think we're pretty jaded about him, but a fat new anthology, <b>" 'Guys and Dolls' and Other Writings" </b>(Penguin: 636 pp., $18 paper), introduced by <b>Pete Hamill </b>and edited and annotated by Cornell professor <b>Daniel R. Schwarz</b>, makes us see afresh a writer whose hard-bitten and ironic point of view prefigures the fictional worlds of "The Godfather" and "The Sopranos." There's much more to Runyon than Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra looking sharp and talking cute in the 1955 film version of "Guys and Dolls."
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    WE think we know Damon Runyon, and we might think we're pretty jaded about him, but a fat new anthology, " 'Guys and Dolls' and Other Writings" (Penguin: 636 pp., $18 paper), introduced by Pete Hamill and edited and annotated by Cornell professor Daniel...

    Tags: Maya Angelou, Al Capone, Pete Hamill, Journalism, William Randolph Hearst

    5. Apr 13, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Jacket Copy

    Shiver me timbers R.L. Stine, author of the beloved "Goosebumps" series of creepy, crawly stories, is heading to "HorrorLand." The ghoulish theme park will be the springboard for 12 new tales, with Scholastic Books planning to release the first two...

    Tags: Edmund Wilson, Politics, Amazon.com Inc., Cormac McCarthy, Journalism

    6. Aug 1, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  6. Concept of original content is pure fiction

    William Shakespeare, you're a criminal. Well, sort of. You're at least a plagiarist--borrowing characters and plots without proper attribution. Our conception of plagiarism, including using words from another source, is largely modern and academic. It'...

    Tags: William Wordsworth, John Coltrane, Ku Klux Klan, Literature, Columbia University

    7. Feb 10, 2006 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. 'Tristram Shandy'

    "The idea of art as an expensive hunk of well-regulated area, both logical and magical," wrote film critic Manny Farber in his essay, "White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art," "sits heavily over the talent of every modern painter." It sits even more heavily over the movies, which, as Farber argued in 1962, seem to get more puffed-up and pleased with themselves as "ever more desperate, ever more coordinated" studios do their best to embalm them in taste, importance and anxiously brokered compromise.
    Times Staff Writer
    "The idea of art as an expensive hunk of well-regulated area, both logical and magical," wrote film critic Manny Farber in his essay, "White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art," "sits heavily over the talent of every modern painter." It sits even more heavily...

    Tags: Naomie Harris, Celebrities, Movies, Arts, Michael Winterbottom

    8. Jul 10, 2006 |Story| Zap2It

  8. 'Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story'

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    The incessant digressions, derailments and narrative loop-the-loops of Laurence Sterne's 18th century novel "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" would seem to make a proper film adaptation impossible ... so Michael Winterbottom didn't...

    Tags: Dylan Moran, Michael Winterbottom, Terry Gilliam, DVDs and Movies, Entertainment

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