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Critic's Notebook: Under the influence of Hemingway
![For much of the 1980s, beginning when I was in college, I used to read a Hemingway book a year. The point was not self-improvement but rather a kind of exploration: What was it, exactly, about his writing that I'd missed? I had read "The Sun Also Rises" in high school and had admired its spare portrayal of 1920s expatriate life. But I'd also thought of it as more than a little stilted, even melodramatic in its way.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-06/62887735-30134252.jpg "For much of the 1980s, beginning when I was in college, I used to read a Hemingway book a year. The point was not self-improvement but rather a kind of exploration: What was it, exactly, about his writing that I'd missed? I had read "The Sun Also Rises\" in high school and had admired its spare portrayal of 1920s expatriate life. But I'd also thought of it as more than a little stilted, even melodramatic in its way.")
Los Angeles Times Book CriticFor much of the 1980s, beginning when I was in college, I used to read a Hemingway book a year. The point was not self-improvement but rather a kind of exploration: What was it, exactly, about his writing that I'd missed? I had read "The Sun Also Rises"...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, John Dos Passos, Jack Kerouac, Petroleum Industry, Richard Ford
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Theater review: 'The Christmas Present' at Sacred Fools Theater
Culture MonsterGuy Picot's dark British comedy "The Christmas Present" has its U.S. premiere at Sacred Fools Theater. Margaret Gray reviews.... -
Review: Ryan Adams at Walt Disney Concert Hall
Pop & HissRyan Adams performed the first of two sold out nights at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Times pop music critic Randall Roberts was there to review it.... -
'Everything Must Go'
Zap2ItWill Ferrell moderates his typical screen persona quite well to play a man whose life has collapsed around him on just about every possible count. While fighting inner demons, he's fired, his wife leaves him, and he's banished from his home - leaving...Tags: Everything Must Go (movie), Will Ferrell, Michael Pena, Rebecca Hall, Blu-ray Discs
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Book review: 'The Art of Fielding' by Chad Harbach
The Art of Fielding
A Novel
Chad Harbach
Little, Brown: 528 pp., $25.99
In terms of conjuring a shorthand for a certain American innocence, there are few delivery systems quite so direct as baseball. Touched on by a library's worth of authors...Tags: Chuck Knoblauch, John Updike, Book, John Irving, Stephen King
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Tea Obreht wins the Orange Prize
Jacket CopyAt 25, Tea Obreht is the youngest writer to win the Orange Prize for Fiction.... -
Everything Must Go: Lost and found
LakeviewI'm a sucker for a good tagline. Four or five carefully chosen words can convert me from “maybe, if I'm bored” to “definitely, opening weekend!” Sometimes I'm disappointed. Other times, I'm fulfilled. The tagline for Everything... -
The Five Best Movies of the Summer
Frankly My Dear - Orlando Sentinel“Everything Must Go” — A “great” Will Ferrell comedy? Timely, about a guy who has just lost his job, his wife and his place to live. A bleak Raymond Carver story about an alcoholic that works because it cast the shockingly... -
The birth of a Twitter trend: #replacebooktitleswithbacon
Jacket CopyLots of great book titles with bacon! And if you've seen too many go by on Twitter lately, blame Carolyn Kellogg and Elissa Schappell.... -
Book Review: 'To Be Sung Underwater' by Tom McNeal
Special to the Los Angeles TimesTo Be Sung Underwater A Novel Tom McNeal Little, Brown: 436 pp., $24.99 You can often tell where a musician has trained or with whom a painter has learned technique. In the case of the European masters, art historians looking at a particular work...Tags: Physical Conditions, Rentals, Migraine, Condos and Houses, Banking
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Books by dudes for dudes, books by chicks for dudes
Jacket CopyEsquire's 75 books by dudes for dudes is three years old, but Joyland created a list of 250 books for dudes by chicks.... -
Book calendar events for the week of March 27, 2011
Words & Ideas Compiled by Grace Krilanovich SUNDAY 826LA Adult Writing Seminar Series: TV Writing: Panelists include Jane Espenson, Drew Z. Greenberg and Damon Lindelof. Meltdown Comics, 7522 W. Sunset Blvd., L.A. 7 p.m. $12-$15. (213) 413-3388. http:/...Tags: Georgia, Behavioral Conditions, Entertainment, Ann Beattie, Anglicanism
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