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'Still Alive! A Temporary Condition' by Herbert Gold
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJuly 23, 2008 If America had the literary culture it ought to have, every city would have a writer like Herbert Gold. They would be rooted rather than regional. Their sensibility would be cosmopolitan rather than provincial, though their focus would...Tags: Los Angeles, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Mark Twain, Philosophy
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Look Past The Cover
It might say something about our level of political discourse that all of the debate surrounding the July 21 issue of The New Yorker magazine has been about the cover. This, of course, is the rendering of Sen. Barack Obama in Muslim garb and his wife,...Tags: Barack Obama, Newspaper and Magazine, Political Candidates, Elections
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'The Book of Getting Even' by Benjamin Taylor
Special to The TimesJune 30, 2008 At 166 pages, "The Book of Getting Even" is a mortar shot of a novel -- the trajectory is steep, the narrative moves at tremendous velocity and the book ends with a bang. Yet it also is a bittersweet and redemptive love story, richly...Tags: Judaism, Cosmology, Book, History, Reinhold Niebuhr
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A newly minted American tackles 9/11
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJune 24, 2008 Joseph O'Neill's fourth book and third novel, "Netherland," has introduced the unlikely phrase "cricket novel" into the literary lexicon. The story is told in the voice of Hans Van der Broek, a Dutch banker living in New York with his...Tags: Cricket, Globalization, Moby, Ralph Ellison, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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'Genius' at work
By Darin Strauss
The daunting thing, of course, is the word itself. You hear "genius," you picture Wile E. Coyote, tinkering alone in the sierras, cobbling together the rocket-powered cycle on which he will catch only trouble.
Sarajevo-born Chicago...Tags: Jose Saramago, Murder, Photography, Crimes, Joseph Conrad
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Wine finds a common-sense context in Neal Rosenthal's 'Reflections of a Wine Merchant'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMay 13, 2008 PINE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Writing, and talking, about wine can be so mannered it has become a figure of fun for decades now: The vocabulary of the outlandish tasting note -- in which the taster attributes bizarre scents and flavors to what's in...Tags: Book, Norman Mailer, David Letterman, Beverage Industry, Pamela Anderson
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The ultimate self-doubter
Alfred Kazin By Richard M. Cook Yale University Press, 452 pages, $35 'I love to think about America," Alfred Kazin, 26, recorded in his journal in February 1942. He was finishing his canonical study of modern American literature, "On Native Grounds,"...Tags: Edmund Wilson, John Cheever, Newspaper and Magazine, New York, Lionel Trilling
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'Starting Out in the Evening' explores life's chapters
NewsdayAndrew Wagner knows the world of the Upper West Side Jewish intelligentsia from the inside. In the vivacious comedy The Talent Given Us, he related the road trip of a New York City family with photo- realistic precision, its effect magnified by the...Tags: Frank Langella, Philip Roth, Lili Taylor, Tribune Company, Upper West Side
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Bret Easton Ellis, two decades beyond 'Zero'
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: Edmund Wilson, Crimes, Newspapers, Clothing and Textiles Industry, New York
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'Starting Out in the Evening'
jan.stuart@newsday.comAndrew Wagner knows the world of the Upper West Side Jewish intelligentsia from the inside. In the vivacious comedy "The Talent Given Us," he related the road trip of a New York City family with photo-realistic precision, its effect magnified by the...Tags: Richard Nixon, Philip Roth, Frank Langella, Broadway, New York
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