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Summer page-turners
Act of Passion A Novel Georges Simenon New York Review Books: $14.95 paper Though successful at his work and family life, a doctor grows dissatisfied and restless and thinks a casual affair is the perfect answer—until the consequences are far...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Clive Barker, Robert Heinlein, England, The Holocaust (1934-1945)
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The Reading Life: Rediscovering Vonnegut
Jacket CopyThe rental house on Cape Cod where I've spent part of nearly every August since I was 9 years old has an amazing library. It's one of the appeals of the place: the opportunity to dig around in all those...... -
Book review: 'Pedigree' by Georges Simenon
Special to the Los Angeles TimesPedigree A Novel Georges Simenon New York Review Books: 560 pp., $17.95 paper In 1941, a doctor told Georges Simenon that he had two years to live. The famously prolific author eventually learned the diagnosis was wrong (he died in 1989), but the...Tags: Belgium, Fiction, London Theatre, Internists, Health and Medical Professionals
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Military Snaps to Attention for Reagan
The Daily MirrorFeb. 27, 1981: Military officers are back in uniform around Washington after an informal switch to civilian clothes, apparently prompted by a remark in 1955 by President Eisenhower that “the place looked like an armed camp.” The change was... -
Natalie Portman's 'Lolita' clutch
Jacket CopyNatalie Portman carried an Olympia Le-Tan purse made of Vldimir Nabakov's notorious novel Lolita to the premiere of Black Swan.... -
Five literary treats to last all year long
Jacket CopyFive literary treats that will last through 2011: free short stories, a new app, near-extinct words and author interviews form the Paris Review.... -
Serially thrilling
The serial novel conjures up images of a bygone century, of a time when Charles Dickens made his name by teasing out the life and death of Little Nell in monthly installments. But one need only look to the flurry of posts on Jacket Copy last month...Tags: Bullfighting, Michael Connelly, The New York Times, Patricia Cornwell, Central Intelligence Agency
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Reasons to shiver: New in paperback
"The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. III" edited by Philip Gourevitch (Picador) "Have you found any professional criticism of your work illuminating or helpful? Edmund Wilson, for example?" asks Julian Jebb, the guy sent by the Paris Review to interview...Tags: Sex Pistols (music group), England, Harold Pinter, Franz Kafka, Fritz Lang
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‘Elegy for April’ by Benjamin Black
"Elegy for April" is the third crime story that the Booker Prize-winning Irish novelist John Banville has published under the pseudonym Benjamin Black. As with the earlier books "Christine Falls" and "The Silver Swan," the action here takes place in the...Tags: James Joyce, Hospitals and Clinics, Cyril Connolly, Genres, Fiction
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'My Little War' by Louis Paul Boon
My Little War
A Novel
Louis Paul Boon
Translated from the Flemish
by Paul Vincent
Dalkey Archive Press: 136 pp., $12.95 paper
"My Little War" is a fictionalized account of the Flemish writer Louis Paul Boon's travails as a frontline soldier during...Tags: World War II (1939-1945)
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'The Paris Review Interviews, Volumes I-IV'
In 1958, Malcolm Cowley edited the first collection of interviews with contemporary authors from the pages of the Paris Review. Over the intervening half-century, the Review has packaged up more than a dozen additional volumes of this material, most...Tags: William Faulkner, Philip Roth, James Baldwin, Joan Didion, Raymond Carver
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A river barge journey in South of France
South Florida Sun-Sentinel Travel EditorTry this once in your life: Stand on a boat as it moves slowly down the narrow waterway of a foreign country. The world passes by, close and observable, and you watch it with a sense of elevated station. The clarity, the buoyancy, the cushiness make you...Tags: Armed Forces, Deere and Company, Fishing, England, Dancing
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