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Five summers, memorable for the reading
Times Book Critic1974: Unhappy at summer camp, I holed up in my bunk and read Philip Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint" and Bernard Malamud's "The Natural." The camp might have been awful, but the books were anything but. 1980: In June, I attended a writers conference at UC...Tags: University of California, Berkeley, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Albert Camus, Jean Genet, Philip Roth
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Book review: 'Say Her Name' by Francisco Goldman
Special to the Los Angeles TimesSay Her Name Francisco Goldman Grove Press: 350 pp., $24 Death has taken a conspicuous place in the recent works of several writers. Joan Didion lost her husband and wrote about it, as did Joyce Carol Oates. Elizabeth McCracken lost a baby; Christopher...Tags: Mexico, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Death and Dying Customs, Book
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On the big screen: 'Play It as It Lays' [Updated]
Jacket CopyJoan Didion is an acknowledged master of nonfiction, from her breakthrough 1968 essay collection "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" to "The Year of Magical Thinking," which won the 2005 National Book Award. Her fiction, however, has always been more... -
Tom Wolfe to get lifetime achievement award
Jacket CopyTime for Tom Wolfe to get his white suit dry-cleaned again, as the author will receive the National Book Foundation's 2010 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, it was announced Wednesday. The medal, which is the foundation's... -
Downers Grove South students win national writing award
TribLocal - Downers Grove » NewsThe 20th Century American author James Baldwin, when asked for advice from an aspiring writer, once said that the trick to writing well was, well, …... -
12 reasons to ignore the naysayers: Do NaNoWriMo
Jacket CopyIf you want to write a novel in 30 days, don't let anyone stop you. Not even Salon's Laura Miller. Miller, who I usually find thoughtful and sweet, has written an anti-NaNoWriMo column -- "Better yet, DON'T write that novel"...... -
What is the West? From sunsets to gangbangers to 'no idea,' 1,000 takes in new Doug Aitken book
Culture MonsterIn trying to stage a gala for the Museum of Contemporary Art that does not feel staged -- or even much like a gala -- Doug Aitken has also created a book for the event that is not simply, and...... -
Joan Didion: memoir yes, blogs not so much
Jacket CopyOne of the things New Yorkers have that Angelenos don't is, apparently, the chance to rub shoulders with the author Joan Didion. Although some of Didion's signature work -- the collection "The White Album" and parts of "Slouching Toward Bethlehem"...... -
Joan Didion breaks collarbone in fall
Jacket CopyJoan Didion, who broke her collarbone in a fall, has canceled a spring appearance in Minnesota.... -
This Recording's marvelous writers series
Jacket CopyA blog series on writers from This Recording is a must-read.... -
You're so nauseously nice: Getting Insulted by Authors
Jacket CopySomewhere in New York this week, Bill Ryan might be found standing in line after an author's reading, waiting his turn for a few words and a signature. While some people get nervous waiting to speak to an author, Ryan...... -
Your favorite L.A. book, Round 1: Which Fante, Didion, Ellroy, Connelly to choose?
Jacket CopyChoose your favorite book by L.A. authors John Fante, Janet Fitch, James Ellroy, Joan Didion, Michael Connelly, Bret Easton Ellis and Raymond Chandler....
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