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Q&A With Nicole Krauss, Author of Great House and The History of Love

Elana Estrin | Posted 11.15.2011 | Books
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Elana Estrin

While studying art history in graduate school, novelist Nicole Krauss spent hours in the library researching Rembrandt, only to find that she preferred imagining the details of his life instead.

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Authors Who Are Famous For The Wrong Book

guardian.co.uk | John Self | Posted 09.18.2011 | Books
Read More: Cat's Cradle, Aldous Huxley, Joseph Heller, Famous Authors, Coca LordKurt Vonnegut, Evelyn Waugh, Famous Books, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Books News

Why is it that the book for which an author is best known is rarely their best? If history is the final judge of literary achievement, why has a title...

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Spotted Reading In Public: What Have We Seen You Reading Recently? (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Authors, W. Somerset Maugham, Steve Martin, NYC Subways, Helter Skelter, Evelyn Waugh, Books, Julia Child, Jennifer Egan, The Keep, The Sword of Honor, Slidepollajax, Reading, Of Human Bondage, Spotted Reading in Public, Books News

From a book about Charles Manson's murder trial to Steve Martin's autobiography, we saw you reading quite the wide array of books in the past few week...

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Books That Crush Intolerance

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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Michael Henry Adams

With a nod to Santayana, many feel that history's greatest lesson is the ability it can afford one to travel back in time, to discover one's self, in ...

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Eunice Frost: The Largely Forgotten Editor Of Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh

Telegraph | Gaby Wood | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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She brought Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh and Dorothy L Sayers to the masses and revolutionised the way we read, yet the life of Eunice Frost, the Pengu...

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Top 10 Books With The Best Dialogue

The Guardian | Frederic Raphael | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Iris Murdoch, John Steinbeck, Frederic Raphael, The Grapes of Wrath, Somerset Maugham, Evelyn Waugh, Final Demands, Dialogue, Books, Best Books, Dialogue in Books, John O'Hara, Books News

"Dialogue brings a novel to life. It is possible to compose fiction without it, just as Georges Perec was able to write an entire book without using t...

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Are the Oscars Broken?

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Best Picture, The Academy Awards, Evelyn Waugh, No Country for Old Men, Sarah Palin, Mark Harris, Best Movies by Farr, American Beauty, Oscar Best Picture, Audrey Hepburn, New York Magazine, Entertainment News
John Farr

I have to ask myself: if I were caught up in the bubble and swirl of the Oscars Campaign in Hollywood, would I actually find it rather thrilling? Or would I want to gag even more?

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Defending Brideshead While Attacking the Media

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Brideshead Revisited, Hill Street Blues, Evelyn Waugh, Movies, Tv, New York Times, Brideshead Revisited Film, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

Why compare Brideshead Revisited to a sitcom like The Facts of Life? Perhaps because the late 70s and early 80s was a highpoint for the miniseries the likes of which we may never see again.

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