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National Book Awards include McCann, Eggers, Vidal
Jacket CopyThe National Book Award for Fiction went to Colum McCann for his novel "Let the Great World Spin," a story of New York in 1974 that doubles as an allegory of 9/11. It was the final award at the black-tie...... -
Fantasy Xmas shopping for book lovers: Christie's droolworthy auction
Jacket CopyLooking for just the right gifts for the book lovers in your life? Today, in two auctions, Christie's is auctioning some rare and stunning literary artifacts. Cormac McCarthy's typewriter is only the beginning; there are first editions and letters and....... -
Cormac McCarthy's $254,500 typewriter
Jacket CopyCormac McCarthy's typewriter sold at auction today for 254,500 bones, more than 12 times the estimated cost of $15,000-$20,000. And the thing barely works! Functionality isn't the point, of course: Provenance is. It's notable that McCarthy has written all... -
Scott Cooper: The body and soul behind 'Crazy Heart'
The Big PictureThe critics have been raving nonstop, and rightfully so, over Jeff Bridges' peerless performance in "Crazy Heart" as Bad Blake, the burned-out country music star who finds himself running on empty, reduced to playing bowling alleys as he tries to...... -
Bret Easton Ellis talks about his novels and the films they spawned
Jacket CopyThere was a big turnout Sunday afternoon at the Festival of Books session featuring Bret Easton Ellis in conversation with music journalist Erik Himmelsbach. Ellis’ seventh novel, “Imperial Bedrooms,” will be published later this year — the... -
New York Drama Critics Circle snub Tony Award contenders to name 'The Orphans' Home Cycle' best play
Gold DerbyFor the second year in row, the New York Drama Critics Circle spurned all the Broadway fare to find the winner of their best play award. (Here is a ballot-by-ballot breakdown of the voting.) This year's champ is the last work from the late Horton Foote, a... -
The surprise on Oprah's best-books list
Jacket CopyThe 10th anniversary edition of O, the Oprah Magazine includes a list of 10 books that rocked Oprah's decade. Eight of them are, as you might expect, selections from Oprah Winfrey's book club, including Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" in...... -
Summer reading: Aimee Bender on 'Geek Love'
Jacket CopySusan Salter Reynolds writes that Aimee Bender combines William Faulkner's loneliness, a profound empathy and Mark Twain's ability to give a light spin to heavy subjects, and blends them together in her new novel, "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake."..... -
'Android Karenina' writer says Tolstoy might not like remake: 'He seems to have taken himself very seriously.'
The Hero ComplexFIVE QUESTIONS: BEN H. WINTERS Ben H. Winters shares the author credit on his new book with literary lion Leo Tolstoy, who died 100 years ago this November. The book is called "Android Karenina" and, yes, that's right, it reimagines...... -
Richard Poirier dies at 83; literary critic helped found Library of America
Richard Poirier, a literary critic and writer who was one of the founders of the Library of America, a monumental effort to keep American literary classics in print and accessible to the reading public, died Aug. 15 at Roosevelt Hospital in New York. He...Tags: Alfred Kazin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Philip Roth, Culture, John Ashbery
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The Library of America launches a blog
Jacket CopyThe Library of America, the nonprofit publishing house dedicated to creating an in-print library of editions of America's greatest works, launched its first blog Friday. Called Reader's Almanac, it focuses on joining the current online discussions that... -
Critic's Notebook: 'Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism 1900-1970'
![Thomas S. Hines, a professor emeritus at UCLA, is the dean of architectural historians in Los Angeles, the author of major studies of the pioneering modernists Richard Neutra and Irving Gill. In "Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism 1900-1970," he has produced a doorstop-sized magnum opus: a massive but terrifically detailed distillation of his thinking on the city where he has lived and taught, with only minor interruptions, since 1968.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-08/55246902-01171557.jpg "Thomas S. Hines, a professor emeritus at UCLA, is the dean of architectural historians in Los Angeles, the author of major studies of the pioneering modernists Richard Neutra and Irving Gill. In "Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism 1900-1970,\" he has produced a doorstop-sized magnum opus: a massive but terrifically detailed distillation of his thinking on the city where he has lived and taught, with only minor interruptions, since 1968.")
Thomas S. Hines, a professor emeritus at UCLA, is the dean of architectural historians in Los Angeles, the author of major studies of the pioneering modernists Richard Neutra and Irving Gill. In "Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism 1900-1970,"...Tags: Frank Lloyd Wright, Heart Attack, Culture, History, Architecture
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Original site for William Faulkner topic gallery.