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HASPIEL: Harvey Pekar's testament to life -- with no apologies
The Hero ComplexAN APPRECIATION New York artist Dean Haspiel was one of the artists who took the words of Harvey Pekar and brought them to new life within the pages of "American Splendor" as well as in "The Quitter," the pair's acclaimed...... -
'Both Ways is the Only Way I Want it' by Maile Meloy
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It Stories Maile Meloy Riverhead: 224 pp., $25.95 If that pebble rolling around in your shoe were in fact a diamond, it would still cause a blister. And so it is with the stories of Maile Meloy's collection, "Both...Tags: Crimes, Adult Education, Salsa (genre), Alice Munro, University of California, Irvine
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Raymond Carver revisited in 'Collected Stories'
Collected Stories
Raymond Carver
Library of America: 1,020 pp., $40
When does an act of reclamation cease to be about restoration and become about something else? That's the question raised by "Collected Stories," the Library of America's new...Tags: Vehicles, Richard Ford, Landforms, Colorado, Fishing
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Theater review: 'The Language Archive' at South Coast Repertory
Culture MonsterLanguage and love are the twin themes of Julia Cho’s “The Language Archive,” a loopy excursion into the difficulty of finding words for what lies in our hearts. The play, which is receiving its world premiere at South Coast Repertory,...... -
LATFOB: Raymond Carver biographer Carol Sklenicka [Updated]
Jacket CopyThe biography "Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life" by Carol Sklenicka, released in 2009, took more than 10 years to research. To get to know the master of the modern American short story, who died at age 50 in 1988, Sklenicka...... -
The Western sage
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe California writer Wallace Stegner is well known to readers for novels such as "Angle of Repose" and "Crossing to Safety." But Stegner had another dimension, as an advocate for a literary West -- especially the West of mountains and desert and big...Tags: Cormac McCarthy, New York, Gary Snyder, University of California, Irvine, Jack Kerouac
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In 'Nothing Right,' writer Antonya Nelson homes in on modern life's contradictions
The house Antonya Nelson shares with her husband, writer Robert Boswell, and their two grown children, Noah, 18, and Jade, 21, is doeskin adobe, built in 1910, surrounded by dusty, shaded sage plants. Inside, there is color everywhere: flowers, pottery,...Tags: O. Henry, Republican Party, Education, Richard Riordan, Cormac McCarthy
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Patrick White's cruel visionaries
![Patrick White, the first great novelist to come out of Australia, was born in 1912, won the Nobel Prize in 1973, died in 1990 and his work promptly dropped from fashion. His style of narrative-driven psychological modernism seemed outmoded, perhaps, when the highbrow section of the literary marketplace had turned to the exuberant post-modernism of Salman Rushdie and David Foster Wallace, on the one hand, and the differently stylized realisms of Raymond Carver and Alice Munro on the other. A chapter from one of White's novels, submitted pseudonymously to a list of top publishers in 2007, was rejected by every one of them. White -- who was gay, had a gallows wit and self-consciously cast himself as an outsider, both ahead of his times and behind them -- would have seen the humor in that. He once said that he had wasted his life writing and should have stuck to "learning to cook properly."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-03/45831224-27125620-100133.gif "Patrick White, the first great novelist to come out of Australia, was born in 1912, won the Nobel Prize in 1973, died in 1990 and his work promptly dropped from fashion. His style of narrative-driven psychological modernism seemed outmoded, perhaps, when the highbrow section of the literary marketplace had turned to the exuberant post-modernism of Salman Rushdie and David Foster Wallace, on the one hand, and the differently stylized realisms of Raymond Carver and Alice Munro on the other. A chapter from one of White's novels, submitted pseudonymously to a list of top publishers in 2007, was rejected by every one of them. White -- who was gay, had a gallows wit and self-consciously cast himself as an outsider, both ahead of his times and behind them -- would have seen the humor in that. He once said that he had wasted his life writing and should have stuck to "learning to cook properly.\"")
Patrick White, the first great novelist to come out of Australia, was born in 1912, won the Nobel Prize in 1973, died in 1990 and his work promptly dropped from fashion. His style of narrative-driven psychological modernism seemed outmoded, perhaps,...Tags: Salman Rushdie, Peter Carey, Thomas Keneally, Australia (movie), Alice Munro
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In 'Lark and Termite,' Jayne Anne Phillips continues to explore human vulnerabilities and the lasting effects of war on memory
![Falling in love with a writer requires commitment; the long haul, thick and thin. They get old, you get old. The relationship waxes and wanes. Most readers can recall times of perfect synchronicity -- when the book was the necessary enzyme, the catalyst, the missing piece. "Black Tickets," Jayne Anne Phillips' first collection of stories, published in 1979, was, for more than one earnest English major, such a book.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-01/44390859-08151351.gif "Falling in love with a writer requires commitment; the long haul, thick and thin. They get old, you get old. The relationship waxes and wanes. Most readers can recall times of perfect synchronicity -- when the book was the necessary enzyme, the catalyst, the missing piece. "Black Tickets,\" Jayne Anne Phillips' first collection of stories, published in 1979, was, for more than one earnest English major, such a book.")
Falling in love with a writer requires commitment; the long haul, thick and thin. They get old, you get old. The relationship waxes and wanes. Most readers can recall times of perfect synchronicity -- when the book was the necessary enzyme, the catalyst,...Tags: Rutgers University, John Irving, International Military Interventions, Natural Disasters, Floods
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'Livability: Stories' by Jon Raymond
Livability
Stories
Jon Raymond
Bloomsbury: 264 pp., $15 paper
It's difficult to talk about Jon Raymond's first story collection, "Livability," without mentioning that two of its nine short stories have already been made into films. This is probably...Tags: Alaska, George W. Bush, Entertainment, Los Angeles, Oregon
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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: Caves and Caverns, England, Salman Rushdie, Social Issues, World War II (1939-1945)
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Dreams of an endless summer
By Richard Rayner
Off the southwest coast of Finland are more than 80,000 small islands left by the retreating ice 10,000 years ago. Some of the islands are mere rocks, washed by the cool waters of the Baltic, but many are covered in pine and fir trees...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Pulitzer Prize Awards, Palestine, Spain, Esa-Pekka Salonen
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