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Most interesting comment thread of the day, courtesy Helen DeWitt
Jacket CopyNovelist Helen DeWitt takes issue with the romantic idea that a writer is a person who has to write.... -
Sarajevo with tears: Another walk down Logavina Street
Jacket CopyBarbara Demick says that" real Sarajevans don’t like to talk about the war," but her book, "Logavina Street," follows the lives of a small community during the conflict. It has been re-released, with additional materials, commemorating the 20th... -
On Sunday: Alain Mabanckou, Jonathan Franzen and lumber as history
Jacket CopyIn Sunday books: a talk with UCLA author Alain Mabanckou, plus reviews of the latest by Jonathan Franzen, lumber as history and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's letters and diaries.... -
Celebrity Scoop: Amanda Peet
Zap2ItSo many actors say they knew from an early age that they belonged onstage. But Amanda Peet actually hurled herself onto one -- while a production was in progress -- when she was 3. "Luckily it was a children's play," says Peet, who stars in NBC's "Bent,"...Tags: Matt Dillon, Movies, NBC (tv network), Corporate Crime, Please Give (movie)
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The Buckingham Book Club
Our book club is a 17-member city book club, begun 16 years ago in The Buckingham Condominium on East Randolph Street, evolving to include friends from other buildings.
We mostly focus on current culture, a delightful example being "Major Pettigrew's...Tags: Clubs and Associations
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Rudin-Norris spat rivets Broadway
In a blockbuster scoop this morning that had Broadway people choking on their cornflakes, New York Post columnist Michael Riedel reported that the powerful New York producer Scott Rudin had angrily pulled the plug on his upcoming Broadway production of...Tags: Scott Rudin, Bruce Norris
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Mark Taper Forum's 'Clybourne Park' Broadway run derailed
Culture MonsterThe Broadway run of the Pulitzer Prize winning play "Clybourne Park" has been canceled by producer Scott Rudin.... -
Book news: 'Albert Nobbs,' lady friends, and fiction and place
Jacket CopyFemale friendships, a very literary Oscar contender, and thoughts on fiction, place and film in the weekend's book news.... -
'Clybourne Park' will move from Taper to Broadway after all
Culture MonsterThe acclaimed production of playwright Bruce Norris' "Clybourne Park," now playing at the Mark Taper Forum, will move to Broadway this spring after all, despite a well-publicized spat between Norris and a producer of the show threatened to sideline the... -
What’s so horrible about e-books?
Orlando Opinionators - Orlando SentinelNovelist Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections, Freedom) argues in an interview published in London's The Telegraph that e-books are bad for society. Really. Franzen's thinking is that their electronic nature makes them vulnerable to change, unlike real... -
Monday books: Franzen on e-books, the end of books and more
Jacket CopyJonathan Franzen doesn't like e-books; ProPublica does.... -
Jordan Roth, 'Clybourne Park's' Broadway producer, makes West Coast swing
Culture MonsterBroadway producer Jordan Roth was sitting in a downtown Los Angeles hotel lobby late Friday afternoon, laughing and giving a broad wave of his hand at the suggestion that he’d stumbled upon a new showbiz corollary to the “you break......
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