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Literary Fisticuffs! Flying Fists And Zinging Words: Nobody Fights Like An Angry Writer (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Sartre, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ernest Hemingway, Wallace Stevens, Camus, Slidepollajax, J.R.R. Tolkien, Gore Vidal, c.s. Lewis, Norman Mailer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Books News

Stereotypically, artists are stormy, temperamental, and moody. These literary figures feed the stereotype with their classic feuds. We asked readers...

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The Real Thing: Saul Bellow Off the Record

David Galenson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Experimental Innovator, Virginia Woolf, Saul Bellow, William Faulkner, Philip Roth, Letters, Spanish Civil War, Leslie Fiedler, Victoria Lidov, Camus, The Plague, Ezra Pound, Arts News
David Galenson

Bellow's recently published Letters give us a generous sampling of the literary judgments of a great writer, with private assessments of his own work -- as well as that of others.

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No Time?

The Guardian | John Crace | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, Nabokov, Rushdie, Midnight's Children, Aldous Huxley, Camus, Swann's Way, Classic Books, Brideshead Revisted, Brave New World, The Age of Innocence, Classic Literature, Huxley, Proust, American Literature, Lolita, Salman Rushdie, Books News

Lolita. Light of my life. Lo. Li. Ta Very Much. If you wonder where my peculiar interests came from, I should have to say it started when I was 13 wit...

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Did The Death Of Communism Take Koestler And Other Literary Figures With It?

The New York Review of Books | Anne Applebaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Langston Hughes, Communism, Rapist, Koestler, Wwii, Suicide, Nyr, Zionism, Camus, Israel, Cold War, Sartre, Paris, Soviet Union, Books News

Anne Applebaum The New York Review Of Books "Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic" by Michael Scammell, Rando...

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Son Objects to Moving Albert Camus's Remains To Pantheon

AP | JAMEY KEATEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sarkozy, France, Camus, Albert Camus, Paris, Nicolas Sarkozy, Pantheon, World News

PARIS — Albert Camus' children are torn about whether to allow the Nobel Prize-winning author's remains to be moved from southern France to Pari...

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January 4, 1960: Albert Camus Dies In a Car Crash, Age 46. His Books Make Him Immortal

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jesse Kornbluth

On January 4, 1960 --- exactly fifty years ago --- Albert Camus had a train ticket to Paris in his pocket.

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"What Bernie Madoff, Victimization, and Elie Wiesel Have to Teach Us"

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Cara Barker

"....in those times, it was human to be inhuman. And now the world has learned, I hope.... There must come a moment -- a moment of bringing people to...

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