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L.A. Times Book Prize winner Jennifer Egan and other fiction writers debate the boundaries of form
Jacket CopyA report from the 2011 LA Times Festival of Books on the panel "breaking Boundaries" with Jennifer Egan, Olga Grushin, Benjamin Hale and Frederick Reiken.... -
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...Tags: Arts and Culture, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Career and Workplace, Culture, Music
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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."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-06/39176063-20141135.gif "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.\"")
Special to The TimesWE 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: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arts and Culture, Book, Philosophy, Salman Rushdie
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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: Arts and Culture, Alice Munro, No Country for Old Men (movie), Sidney Poitier, Folklore and Mythology
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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: Barack Obama, Lake Forest College, D.W. Griffith, Arts and Culture, Literature
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'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.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-02/21874131.jpg ""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: Arts, Arts and Culture, Robert Bresson, Entertainment, Film Festivals
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'Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story'
Zap2It.comThe 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: Stephen Fry, HBO (tv network), Steve Coogan, England, Jeremy Northam
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