Theodore Dreiser

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Sounds Like a Long-Term Plan

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James Diener is almost certainly the only head of a music label who�s reading�for pleasure�the world�s hundred best books. Right now, he�s slogging through Theodore Dreiser�s Sister Carrie, a novel that�s a century and a universe removed from his world....

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UCLA Archive unearths gems in 'Unburied Treasures'

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The UCLA Film & Television Archive is no small place. The Library of Congress aside, it's the biggest collection in the country, with film holdings alone numbering a staggering 85,000 titles. Wouldn't you like to take a peek at the rarities hidden in...

'America America' by Ethan Canin

2008-06-22 00:00:00

America America A Novel Ethan Canin Random House: 466 pp., $27 It's refreshing -- and almost quaint -- to see someone try to write a Great American Novel in the 21st century. These days, writers are more apt to pursue the Great American Screenplay...

Master of metaphors and metaphysics

2008-06-15 00:00:00

The holy grail of the author's own collector's quest is the 1961 1s 3d Parliamentary Conference stamp, which he recalls as being "the most beautiful small object I had ever seen" as a boy. On this stamp, the head of the queen, which should by rights...

Among the Chicago writers who felt the influence of fatalistic and blunt writer Theodore Dreiser , who wrote the novel "Sister Carrie", was Nelson Algren , author of "The Man with the Golden Arm" and "A Walk on the Wild Side". As with Dreiser, the grim realism of Algren's work offended some readers.

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