Alain Robbe-Grillet dies at 85

Press Association Monday February 18, 2008 guardian.co.uk Alain Robbe-Grillet, a “new novelist” and film-maker who rejected conventional storytelling and was one of France’s most important avant-garde writers has died at the age of 85. Robbe-Grillet...

95 Years Ago Today – The 1913 Armory Show

Lauded as one of the most influential events in the history of American art, the Armory Show has a mythic legacy that rivals the raucous opening of Igor Stravinsky’s ballet, The Rite of Spring in Paris. In the wake of previous large independent art exhibitions...

Not Under The Volcano by Ian Thomson

Ian Thomson reviews a collection of Malcolm Lowry’s poems, letters and fictions Malcolm Lowry was a ferocious malcontent, who free-wheeled towards an early grave with the help of cooking sherry, meths, even bottles of skin bracer. From skid row to bedlam and...

The Best After-Midnight Menu in LA

Mr. Hudson, Businessman, Entrepreneur and CEO, began his life in Pennsylvania, born and raised there he attended high school and graduated in 1958. Upon his graduation he went on to join the United States Army as a Cryptographer, traveling abroad and eventually being...

Richard Ford Leaves His Longtime Publisher

By MOTOKO RICH Published: February 13, 2008 New York Times In a surprise move, Richard Ford, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Independence Day” and “The Lay of the Land,” has switched publishers for his next three books. Mr. Ford, who turns 64 on Saturday, sold...