A sympathetic Confederate rides again
Historical novels are strange and even treacherous undertakings. For the sake of a focused narrative, they are often centered on the lives of a few.
Modified: 11/20/09 01:11:43 PM
In the age of Twitter, the short story thrives
Print is dead. Long live the short story.
Modified: 11/20/09 03:11:29 PM
Peek inside the great detectives
If you're a mystery buff in search of fun, I'd bet my weekly lunch money that "The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives" would be just what you're looking for.
Modified: 11/20/09 02:16:28 PM
Grisham set for UNC grads
John Grisham, author of 23 books, including several best-selling legal thrillers, will give UNC-Chapel Hill's spring commencement address.
Modified: 11/17/09 11:38:22 PM
Another win for Daddy prose
The singular experience of becoming a father can change everything. This seems to include - for literary papas - what you want to write about.
Modified: 11/13/09 03:11:37 PM
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King aims high and wide, and hits target
Stephen King has settled down a bit from the days when he would wipe out most of the world's population with a flu bug just to set the stage for his real story.
Modified: 11/13/09 03:36:23 PM
Riffing on Rand
The irrepressible Ayn Rand died in 1982, both heralded and excoriated for her uncompromising belief in individualism and capitalism.
Modified: 11/13/09 03:11:33 PM
Wilde Awards go to picture books
Picture books are the present you can open again and again; they provide bright moments on dark days. Coming next month: the Wilde team's awards for longer books.
Modified: 11/15/09 06:33:00 AM
Coach lets it fly
Coaches' memoirs are usually a sorry lot, rife with the sorts of nostrums and treacle and pithy life lessons one endures in the campaign biographies of politicians and the masterworks of celebrities.
Modified: 11/06/09 02:25:22 PM
Father and son caught in chaos
'Last Night in Twisted River" showcases all of John Irving's biggest liabilities as a writer: a tricked-up, gimmicky plot; cartoony characters; absurd contrivances; cheesy sentimentality; and a thoroughly preposterous ending.
Modified: 11/06/09 02:35:19 PM
Inside MI5, as it defends the Realm
Mention "MI-5" to the typical Anglophile, public television viewer and you will be filled in on the latest episode of BBC America's riveting, well-acted, late Saturday night show.
Modified: 11/06/09 02:35:25 PM
New in paperback
The English Major by Jim Harrison. (Grove) "We English majors of a serious bent are susceptible to high ideals we paste on our lives like decals," the protagonist of Harrison's 15th work of fiction, an English teacher turned cherry farmer, says.
Modified: 11/06/09 02:35:22 PM
The total package: a book, play, music
A conniving crook and a young innocent. Paths cross. Beliefs are challenged.
Modified: 11/08/09 06:13:57 AM
A daughter's take on Orson Welles
No posters or photographs of Orson Welles hang in the living room of his eldest daughter, Chris Welles Feder. His memory is preserved, imperfectly, through a shelf of books that Feder says have yet to capture her father's many-sided life.
Modified: 10/30/09 05:46:59 PM
The disconnection connects it all
'Paranoia is a flower in the brain," asserts the incredibly named Perkus Tooth, nexus of all the strange happenings that run through Jonathan Lethem's very strange novel "Chronic City."
Modified: 10/30/09 02:47:12 PM
The holy grail of physics
A 17-mile-long circular tunnel lies beneath the French-Swiss border just outside Geneva. Parts of it are more than 500 feet below ground. The tunnel houses the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful particle collider on the planet.
Modified: 11/01/09 05:57:27 AM
Youth and desire collide
It's 1967 as "Invisible" begins. Adam Walker, a 20-year-old literature student at Columbia and aspiring poet, meets political science professor Rudolf Born and his temptress girlfriend, Margot, at a party.
Modified: 10/30/09 02:32:24 PM
Bestsellers
Fiction
1. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
2. Pursuit Of Honor by Vince Flynn
3. Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly
Modified: 11/01/09 07:27:55 AM
New in paperback
By Victor Pelevin. Translated by Andrew Bromfield. (Penguin)
Modified: 10/30/09 02:47:47 PM
The woman behind 'Little Women'
In her new biography of the fiercely independent author of "Little Women," screenwriter Harriet Reisen draws a lively, engrossing portrait of Louisa May Alcott's life that will appeal to the legions of women who grew up worshipping the book.
Modified: 10/30/09 02:47:53 PM
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