Patricia Highsmith

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Paperback Writers: Classic Patricia Highsmith

2011-07-17 00:00:00

Guilt was Patricia Highsmith's great theme. In her books even the good know they're not innocent, and they carry an apprehension that they too will be found out. "Night was falling quickly, with visible speed like a black sea creeping over the earth,"...

Book review: 'Nom de Plume' by Carmela Ciuraru

2011-08-08 12:19:00

"The obvious trouble with pen names … even with the most inspired and impressive ones, was that they somehow failed to convey truly the full extent of one's literary genius," said Romain Gary, the great French filmmaker and novelist, among other...

David Cronenberg: The detail-obsessed Viggo Mortensen

2011-11-19 16:36:45

Book calendar events for the week of February 27, 2011

2011-02-27 12:03:00

Words & Ideas Compiled by Grace Krilanovich. SUNDAY Tamim Ansary: The author of "Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes" will discuss and sign his new book. Pacific Asia Museum, 46 N. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena. 2 p.m. Free...

From the Stacks -- 'Ride the Pink Horse'

2011-04-12 04:33:13

29 literary films to fill your holidays [Updated]

2010-12-21 16:34:02

Book review: 'Patricia Highsmith, Selected Novels and Short Stories'

2010-12-17 00:00:00

The Texas-born, New York-educated, Europe-dwelling Patricia Highsmith (1921-95), whose genre-bending fiction is hard to pigeonhole, excelled at depicting extreme emotional and psychological states — as demonstrated in "Patricia Highsmith: Selected...

Paperback Writers: Vintage early Mantel

2010-08-29 00:00:00

It may seem, thanks to her ManBooker Prize winning novel 'Wolf Hall' (just out in paperback, Picador: 608 pp., $16), that the novelist Hilary Mantel needs no more attention; but in fact the large body of her work — and she's been publishing for more...

Dark Passages: Can you trust what you hear?

2010-04-04 00:00:00

I should admit up front that my favorite narrators tend to be unreliable. While other readers seek comfort or order, a breather from life's everyday chaos and bad news, I like having my consciousness pricked by protagonists who don't understand their...

Paperback Writers: Unlucky 'Eileen'

2010-01-31 00:00:00

Brian Moore was born in Northern Ireland, immigrated to Canada and spent much of his life living here in California, in Malibu. He wrote scripts, short stories and a string of novels, many of which, like "The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne," "Black Robe"...

Reviews this week: On Bob Dylan, scandalous women and epistolary bliss

2009-12-11 16:33:34

Author Patricia Highsmith began writing her famous villain's story in 1954.

2010-12-17 00:00:00

Oscar streak continues In 1999, Minghella wrote and directed his third feature film, The Talented Mr. Ripley with Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law. Based on Patricia Highsmith s book of the same name, the film was nominated for five Oscars, including best adapted screenplay.

2008-03-18 12:27:57