Anthony Burgess

Well-Dressed Bandit sentenced for nine bank robberies

2012-05-15 21:36:02

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Monster Mash: Neutra house could be demolished; 9/11 cross gets new home

2011-07-25 16:33:02

<![CDATA[Monster Mash: Neutra house could be demolished; 9/11 cross gets new home]]>

Summer reading: John Reed on 'The Dark Knight Returns'

2010-08-29 16:34:48

<![CDATA[Summer reading: John Reed on 'The Dark Knight Returns']]>

Theater review: 'Cyrano de Bergerac' at Ruskin Group Theatre

2010-12-09 21:32:47

<![CDATA[Theater review: 'Cyrano de Bergerac' at Ruskin Group Theatre]]>

Paperback Writers: Sillitoe's still running

2010-02-28 00:00:00

Alan Sillitoe, now in his 80s, grew up in Nottingham, in the English midlands, in the kind of squalor and poverty that, a century earlier, gave Charles Dickens nightmares. Sillitoe's father was a violent drunk; his mother, on occasion, was forced to...

Jackie Collins: nothing's shocking

2010-02-12 16:33:45

Manchester's new, true grit

2007-07-01 00:00:00

Manchester, England If you live in Los Angeles long enough, you forget how intoxicating height can be. Here I was, 23 stories up in the coolest new hotel in northwestern England, looking across several counties and several centuries. The bar at the...

True New Yorker

2008-07-20 00:00:00

About two years ago, when rats came down from a lowquat tree and began scratching around and scuttling around in the crawl space beneath our Venice home, I made my wife laugh (and wince) by reading to her from Joseph Mitchell's classic 1944 New Yorker...

Aging gracefully: Ken Kesey's "Cuckoo" and "Notion"

2007-12-09 00:00:00

By Richard Rayner "He had the build of a plunging halfback, with big shoulders and a neck like the stump of a Douglas fir," wrote Malcolm Cowley, who taught Ken Kesey in a writing class at Stanford in 1960. "Chapters of a novel were read aloud in a...

Writers as rogues and role models

2003-09-21 00:00:00

Early in his career, an aspiring novelist faces a moment when he must decide to take his vocation seriously or else remain a dreamer, unpublished and unconsidered. Michael Mewshaw's occurred in the office of legendary Random House editor Albert Erskine....

Howard County prostitution sting sees 10 men arrested

2012-07-17 07:22:00

Howard County police have charged 10 men with solicitation of prostitution and disorderly conduct during an operation targeting solicitation activities along the U.S. 1 corridor in Laurel. Women officers in plain clothes worked undercover Friday in...

Garrard High School graduation leaves some spectators standing in the hallway

2012-05-19 10:14:00

LANCASTER — An hour before commencement ceremonies began for the Garrard County High School Class of 2012, the gym and parking lot at Garrard Middle School overfilled. As many as 100 people were relegated to the hallway outside of the gym, which did...

Stanley Kubrick s violent, evocative and feverish adaptation of Anthony Burgess novel set in a not-so-distant-future Britain centers on a gang of teenagers who go on nightly rampages to beat up and rape helpless victims. Hence the initial X rating.

2007-10-10 16:20:07