by | Mar 26, 2008 | Literary News, Los Angeles
from the LA Times BOOK REVIEW Wambaugh as social chronicler? In “Hollywood Crows,” the novelist takes his cops into Hollywood’s tumultuous, changing immigrant community. By Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer March 26, 2008 Joseph Wambaugh...
by | Mar 25, 2008 | Literary News
The Book as ‘An Art Object That We Should Defend’ “Literature is inseparable today from the books that carry their stories. If we want to save literature we have to save the rectangular objects that carry and spread their words. We have to respect...
by | Mar 24, 2008 | Literary News
2008 HUGO AWARDS NOMINEES http://www.denvention.org/hugos Best Novel (382 ballots cast) The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins; Fourth Estate) Brasyl by Ian McDonald (Gollancz; Pyr) Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer (Tor; Analog 10/06-1-2/07) The...
by | Mar 24, 2008 | Literary News
book review in the Los Angeles Times ‘A Death in the Family: A Restoration of the Author’s Text’ edited by Michael A. Lofaro Did James Agee’s editor know what he was doing? Apparently not, as a new version of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is...
by | Mar 23, 2008 | Literary News, Los Angeles
from the LA Times Bret Easton Ellis, two decades beyond ‘Zero’ The onetime enfant terrible, now 44, still has no patience for critics, but some of his colleagues say Ellis’ writing may one day get the respect it deserves. By Scott Timberg, Los...
by | Mar 23, 2008 | Literary News
from the BBC Encouraging cancer patients to write down their deepest fears about the disease may improve their quality of life, according to a US study. Nancy Morgan, a “writing clinician”, approached patients waiting in a clinic at a cancer centre in...
