Tag: american fiction
member name: Jesse BC
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November 28, 2006 05:06 AM EST --
After Oprah’s selection for her summer book club and subsequent proliferation and price-gouging on bookstore shelves, America has become reacquainted with John Steinbeck’s East of Eden (Viking . . . more
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May 20, 2007 02:52 AM EDT --
If I ever become the rich and famous author of wildly popular, pseudo-intellectual pulp fiction, remind me when the time comes to keep Ron Howard the hell away from my novels.
Dan Brown would have . . . more
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January 30, 2007 11:33 PM EST --
After we read Ralph Waldo Emerson in class, I wrote "My Philosophy of Life," which I intended for the start of a book but could only get three pages out of it. Mrs. Henry said I needed to live . . . more
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February 22, 2007 03:12 PM EST --
The snake has at last swallowed its own tail and postmodern fiction has found a defining moment. Literature found postmodernism in 1961 with Thomas Pynchon’s novel, V, and is characterized . . . more
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April 18, 2007 05:48 AM EDT --
My picks for the best of 2005
10) Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (Harper Perennial, 2002)
This novel about Latin American revolutionaries who take hostages during a party for the Japanese Prime . . . more
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June 27, 2007 02:44 PM EDT --
My best picks for 2006
9) Punk Marketing: Get Off Your Ass and Join the Revolution by Richard Laermer and Mark Simmons (Collins, anticipated publication March 2007)
Half how-to manual, half radical . . . more
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January 28, 2007 08:50 PM EST --
Have you ever tried a tea that sounded particularly tasty from its ingredients? You find a box of apple cinnamon nutmeg tea and you think, “Great! I love all three! And together, they’ll taste . . . more
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February 17, 2007 09:07 AM EST --
Lucinda Trout calls her latest assignment “A Year in Provence meets Lake Wobegon Days." Her acerbic, gramatically-challenged boss calls it “Girl, Interrupted meets Deliverance." . . . more
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February 05, 2007 05:23 AM EST --
The trouble with reviewing a book like Bridgett M. Davis’ Shifting Through Neutral (HarperCollins 2004) is that Davis’ first novel contains such elegance and subtlety that any attempt to analyze . . . more
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January 24, 2007 07:38 AM EST --
Books abound that are written for children but enjoyed by adults. Roald Dahl. EL Konigsburg. JK Rowling. But Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred (Beacon Press, 1979) is historical science fiction written . . . more
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February 22, 2008 09:42 PM EST --
My best picks for 2007
11) Live from Cape Canaveral: Covering the Space Race from Sputnik to Today by Jay Barbree (HarperCollins, 2007)
Released to coincide with the 50th anniversary . . . more
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December 30, 2006 05:45 AM EST --
Virgin suicide
What was that she cried?
No use in stayin’
On this holocaust ride
She gave me her cherry
She’s my virgin suicide
From a song by the fictional rock band Cruel Crux, comes . . . more
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May 06, 2007 10:06 PM EDT --
A malaise lingers over the book-loving world since January 8, 2006, when The Smoking Gun busted James Frey for lying through his teeth in his drug-addled confessional rehab “memoir,” A Million . . . more
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May 24, 2007 06:09 AM EDT --
Between the dark and the daylight,
When night is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the day's occupations,
That is known as the children's hour.
A whisper and then a silence,
Yet . . . more
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