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Review: Jonathan Franzen's 'Farther Away' wants to bridge distance
Tribune newspapers-------------------- Farther Away Essays Jonathan Franzen Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 322 pp., $26 -------------------- I didn't much like Jonathan Franzen's essay "Farther Away" when I read it a year ago in the New Yorker. A complicated mishmash of a...Tags: Donald Antrim, David Foster Wallace, Manhattan (New York City), Alice Munro, Authors
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Bookmark: Cover hides what's really inside
Her publisher surely meant well, but the cover of Anne Tyler's new novel "The Beginner's Goodbye" (Knopf) is all wrong. The cover — a pair of elegant cups and saucers displayed against a doily-white background — might reasonably be...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Ghost (movie), Anne Tyler, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author to speak Nov. 15
jenb@amnews.comOne of America’s leading novelists will spend time on the Centre College campus, reading from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “Olive Kitteridge,” and giving a class at the college library. Elizabeth Strout’s award-winning...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Anita Brookner, Philip Roth, Los Angeles Times, Arts and Culture
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Favorites 2009: Fiction and poetry
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Doubleday)
A struggling young writer in 1920s Barcelona accepts a lucrative, diabolical assignment commissioned by a shadowy client.
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker (Simon & Schuster)
Meet Paul Chowder, a poet,...Tags: Hart Crane, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Family, Los Angeles, Poetry
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Nobel natterings: let the barfight begin
Tribune cultural criticLet the bar fights begin: Mario Vargas Llosa? You gotta be kidding me. Of all the categories in which Nobel Prizes are awarded, none gets the blood going quite like the literary one. It’s a little tricky to have an opinion about the physics or...Tags: Toni Morrison, The Ohio State University, Human Interest, Julia Keller, Education
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Margaret Atwood's apocalyptic humor
Jacket CopyWith "The Year of the Flood," Margaret Atwood presents another story of our apocalyptic future. Reviews of "The Year of the Flood" all seem similarly amused (for the new novel has many touches of humor), admiring, perhaps also a little...... -
Favorite fiction of 2009 from the L.A. Times
Jacket CopyThere are 25 books in the list of the Los Angeles Times 2009 fiction favorites. It includes some authors you might expect -- Orhan Pamuk and Alice Munro -- as well as new talents like Maile Meloy, above. LA Times...... -
Book Review: Treasured memories of a beloved brother
Anton Chekhov
A Brother's Memoir
Mikhail Chekhov, translated from the Russian by Eugene Alper
Palgrave Macmillan: 230 pp., $25
Anton Chekhov's life is well documented: When he died of consumption in 1904 at age 44, he was honored all over the world....Tags: Happiness (state of mind), Internists, Health, Colleges and Universities, Alice Munro
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'Love and Summer: A Novel' by William Trevor
Love and Summer
A Novel
William Trevor
Viking: 212 pp., $25.95
That William Trevor has not yet received the Nobel Prize in Literature strikes me as a shame. Surely his absence from the list of laureates has more to do with the politics of national...Tags: Photography, Death, Republic of Ireland, Colleges and Universities, University of Michigan
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'Brooklyn' by Colm Tóibín
Brooklyn A Novel Colm Tóibín Scribner: 272 pp., $25 Colm Tóibín leads a generation of Irish novelists, born in the 1950s, who have achieved wide international readership. Sebastian Barry, Roddy Doyle, Neil Jordan and Patrick McCabe have long been...Tags: Edna O'Brien, Religious Events, Death, Family, Los Angeles Times
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Felicia's Journey
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday November 19, 1999 With "Felicia's Journey," Canada's masterful and ever-venturesome Atom Egoyan continues to explore the ways in which people are damaged by terrible loss and loneliness and how they strive to overcome them. This...Tags: Death, Penelope Cruz, Bob Hoskins, Entertainment, Cinema Industry
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