Alice Munro

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

2012-04-29 00:00:00

-------------------- 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...

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2011-10-27 21:34:10

Book review: 'Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories' by Edith Pearlman

2011-01-16 00:00:00

Binocular Vision New & Selected Stories Edith Pearlman Lookout Books: 374 pp., $18.95 paper I'll confess: I had never heard of Edith Pearlman before reading "Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories," a collection of 34 pieces of her short fiction...

Favorites 2009: Fiction and poetry

2009-12-06 00:00:00

The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zaf�n (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,...

Apatow gets funny (mostly) for McSweeney's and 826LA

2010-10-27 16:33:51

'The Killing' recap: Taking its time

2011-04-04 16:36:32

Philip Roth wins Man Booker International Prize, sparks controversy

2011-05-18 16:34:49

Astral Weeks: Ted Chiang's mental travelers

2010-10-30 00:00:00

Not a short story, not quite a novella — wasn't that a Britney Spears song? — the oxymoronic long short story is an underemployed literary form. (For argument's sake, let's say the long short story ranges from 30 to 60 pages.) F. Scott...

Favorite fiction of 2009 from the L.A. Times

2009-12-03 16:33:29

John Grisham and the return of the short story

2009-12-29 16:33:37

Los Angeles Times bestsellers for Jan. 10, 2010

2010-01-10 00:00:00

++++++++++++++++++++ || Fiction || Weeks on list || || 1. || The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam: $24.95) The lives of a maid, a cook and a college graduate become intertwined as they change a Mississippi town. || 31 || || 2. || Wolf Hall by Hilary...

Discoveries: 'Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries' by Helen Vendler

2010-09-12 00:00:00

Dickinson Selected Poems and Commentaries Helen Vendler Harvard University Press: 530 pp., $35 I'm just a regular reader, you say. I read for pleasure. Why should I read the commentaries of critic Helen Vendler on the "epigrammatic, terse, abrupt,...

This decade, Christie appeared in small roles in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Troy, as well a more substantial part as Emma du Maurier in 2004 s Finding Neverland.

2007-12-31 10:16:29

I ll have to trust the person doing it.

2007-05-03 15:50:18

INSPIRATION? Alice Munro takes one of her favorite walks, along Lake Huron near her home in Canada.

2006-11-04 05:12:51