Tag: novel
member name: Chris Steib
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December 24, 2007 04:12 PM EST --
I may regret announcing this resolution to my fellow Gatherers, but I have officially challenged myself to read 50 books in 2008. Quick math shows that I'm signed up to ingest a book about every . . . more
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January 13, 2008 04:52 PM EST --
For those unaware, this year I pledged to read 50 books as my literary New Year's resolution. I'm on target so far, having read two and finishing my third today or tomorrow (depending on whether . . . more
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August 29, 2007 06:58 PM EDT --
I'm not sure at what point the publishing industry decided that "literary" was synonymous with "depressing," but Kaui Hart Hemmings' debut novel The Descendants is a prime . . . more
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April 18, 2008 12:25 AM EDT --
Just when you thought things couldn't get much tougher for the publishing industry, the paper predecessors to forthcoming film adaptations may have begun taking a backseat to their own treatments. . . . more
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September 27, 2007 01:13 PM EDT --
“We live in a world that could only have been dreamed up by Graham Greene and Franz Kafka on a weekend bender, with George Orwell along to write slogans.” -- Jess Walter, from the afterward . . . more
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October 16, 2007 12:25 PM EDT --
In book-to-film news, AOL Movies posted a new trailer for the Coen brothers' forthcoming adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy classic No Country for Old Men. I have little to add to the trailer except . . . more
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March 20, 2007 12:49 PM EDT --
Dana Adam Shapiro is the author of the darkly comic and heartwarmingly quirky novel The Every Boy (read an excerpt here). A former senior editor of Spin and a founder of Icon magazine, Dana also . . . more
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March 21, 2007 11:41 AM EDT --
When it was first published in the early 1980s, Bret Easton Ellis' Less than Zero was dubbed "Catcher in the Rye for the MTV generation" by that all-knowing literary oracle USA Today (snark). . . . more
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April 14, 2008 10:46 PM EDT --
As expected, I really fell behind on my goal to read 50 books this year, but a few quick classics and some forthcoming poetry reads should put me back on track. For this segment (my first in nearly two . . . more
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April 19, 2008 02:43 PM EDT --
The 50-book warpath continues, and this time the bodies on the battlements include a rapturous poetry read by a Pulitzer Prize winner, a tiresome tale of unrealistic romance from the former editor of . . . more
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April 06, 2008 05:24 PM EDT --
Print may not be dead quite yet, but a recent literary initiative by the Los Angeles Times could relegate the paper's native medium as an afterthought to its digitally rendered sibling. In the . . . more
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July 02, 2008 11:26 PM EDT --
No matter what you think you leave behind, until your heart stops, you carry it all with you.
War -- the second novel by author/filmmaker Todd Komarnicki -- follows the narrative of an . . . more
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