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William Trevor

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    Apr 29, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Review: Jonathan Franzen's 'Farther Away' wants to bridge distance

    <strong>Farther Away</strong>
    Tribune newspapers
    -------------------- Farther Away Essays Jonathan Franzen Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 322 pp., $26 -------------------- I didn't much like Jonathan Franzen's essay "Farther Away" when I read it a year ago in the New Yorker. A complicated mishmash of a...

    Tags: Alice Munro, David Foster Wallace, Donald Antrim, Manhattan (New York City), Authors

    2. May 17, 2012 |Story| Daily Pilot

  2. Bookmark: Cover hides what's really inside

    Her publisher surely meant well, but the cover of Anne Tyler's new novel "The Beginner's Goodbye" (Knopf) is all wrong. The cover — a pair of elegant cups and saucers displayed against a doily-white background — might reasonably be...

    Tags: Ghost (movie), Anne Tyler, Fiction, Demi Moore, Pulitzer Prize Awards

    3. Dec 6, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Favorites 2009: Fiction and poetry

    <b>The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zaf&#243;n (Doubleday) </b>
    The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Doubleday) A struggling young writer in 1920s Barcelona accepts a lucrative, diabolical assignment commissioned by a shadowy client. The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker (Simon & Schuster) Meet Paul Chowder, a poet,...

    Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Sociology, Korean War (1950-1953), Alice Munro, Thomas Pynchon

    4. Oct 7, 2010 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  4. Nobel natterings: let the barfight begin

    Let the bar fights begin: Mario Vargas Llosa? You gotta be kidding me.
    Tribune cultural critic
    Let the bar fights begin: Mario Vargas Llosa? You gotta be kidding me. Of all the categories in which Nobel Prizes are awarded, none gets the blood going quite like the literary one. It’s a little tricky  to have an opinion about the physics or...

    Tags: Awards and Prizes, Toni Morrison, The Ohio State University, Julia Keller, Mario Vargas Llosa

    5. Apr 25, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Writers Salvador Plascencia and Michael Jaime-Becerra share a city and common inspiration: El Monte

    Aside from their proximity in age, and the fulsome praise they got for their debut novels, Salvador Plascencia and Michael Jaime-Becerra would appear to have little in common as writers.
    Aside from their proximity in age, and the fulsome praise they got for their debut novels, Salvador Plascencia and Michael Jaime-Becerra would appear to have little in common as writers. Plascencia's "The People of Paper," which was published in 2005...

    Tags: Charlie Kaufman, Genesis (music group), Laurence Sterne, John Cheever, Marc Chagall

    6. Sep 27, 2009 | Los Angeles Times

  6. Margaret Atwood's apocalyptic humor

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    With "The Year of the Flood," Margaret Atwood presents another story of our apocalyptic future. Reviews of "The Year of the Flood" all seem similarly amused (for the new novel has many touches of humor), admiring, perhaps also a little......
    7. Dec 3, 2009 | Los Angeles Times

  7. Favorite fiction of 2009 from the L.A. Times

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    There are 25 books in the list of the Los Angeles Times 2009 fiction favorites. It includes some authors you might expect -- Orhan Pamuk and Alice Munro -- as well as new talents like Maile Meloy, above. LA Times......
    8. Aug 1, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Book Review: Treasured memories of a beloved brother

    Anton Chekhov
    Anton Chekhov A Brother's Memoir Mikhail Chekhov, translated from the Russian by Eugene Alper Palgrave Macmillan: 230 pp., $25 Anton Chekhov's life is well documented: When he died of consumption in 1904 at age 44, he was honored all over the world....

    Tags: Lungs and Airways, Alice Munro, Robert Frost, Moscow (Russia), Happiness (state of mind)

    9. Aug 30, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. 'Love and Summer: A Novel' by William Trevor

    Love and Summer
    Love and Summer A Novel William Trevor Viking: 212 pp., $25.95 That William Trevor has not yet received the Nobel Prize in Literature strikes me as a shame. Surely his absence from the list of laureates has more to do with the politics of national...

    Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Awards and Prizes, England, Robert Frost, Real Estate Agents

    10. May 3, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. 'Brooklyn' by Colm Tóibín

    Brooklyn A Novel Colm Tóibín Scribner: 272 pp., $25 Colm Tóibín leads a generation of Irish novelists, born in the 1950s, who have achieved wide international readership. Sebastian Barry, Roddy Doyle, Neil Jordan and Patrick McCabe have long been...

    Tags: Rituals, Edna O'Brien, Religious Events, Romance (genre), Death

    11. Apr 6, 2000 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Felicia's Journey

    TIMES STAFF WRITER
    Friday November 19, 1999      With "Felicia's Journey," Canada's masterful and ever-venturesome Atom Egoyan continues to explore the ways in which people are damaged by terrible loss and loneliness and how they strive to overcome them.      This...

    Tags: Movies, Penelope Cruz, Cinema Industry, Kevin Pollak, Death

    12. Sep 14, 1999 |Story| Metromix

  12. Fall spotlight on movies

    - denotes a movie to watch. "Lost Souls" (director: Janusz Kaminski). More devilish doings, with Winona Ryder trying to save the world from the Satanic invasion of Ben Chaplin'sbody. The director is Spielberg's cinematographer and a local Columbia...

    Tags: Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench, Sam Shepard, Elina Lowensohn, Teen-agers

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