by | Feb 27, 2008 | Culture Music Art
By Dan Neil, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer February 27, 2008 Not to go all Pauline Kael on you, but “Bullitt” — the 1968 crime drama starring a Ford Mustang GT390 and some guy named Steve McQueen — is a fairly tedious bit of Aquarian cinema:...
by | Feb 26, 2008 | Culture Music Art
By JEFF LEEDS Published: February 26, 2008 LOS ANGELES — Mario Lavandeira, known to millions of fans as the gossip blogger Perez Hilton, has a habit of humiliating celebrities he dislikes by doodling explicit images across their photos on his Web site. But he has also...
by | Feb 25, 2008 | Literary News
March 2, 2008 Hardcover Fiction This Week Last Week Weeks On List 1 THE APPEAL, by John Grisham. (Doubleday, $27.95.) Political and legal intrigue ensue when a Mississippi court decides against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste. 1 3 2 7TH...
by | Feb 22, 2008 | Literary News
by Paul Johnson in The Spectator I gave up writing novels in my mid-twenties, when I was halfway through my third, convinced I had not enough talent for fiction. Sometimes I wish I had persisted. There is one particular reason. The point is made neatly by W. Somerset...
by | Feb 22, 2008 | Literary News
Check out this nice little literary blog from NYC (and buy one of her shirts)… Book Nerd Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States I work at an independent bookstore in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood. Someday I will have a bookstore of my own in...
