19 Sep 2008 at 7:58pm One of the fascinating things about the hard-boiled tradition is its geographic flexibility. Writers all over the world have taken the form, altered it to suit their times and temperaments and made it at home almost everywhere. The peripatetic ...
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19 Sep 2008 at 7:44pm James Crumley, a revered and influential crime novelist whose hard-boiled detective tales set in Montana and other Western locales were praised for both their grittiness and the lyrical quality of their prose, has died. He was 68. Crumley died of ...
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17 Sep 2008 at 7:53pm PULITZER PRIZE WINNER Art Spiegelman's new book, "Breakdowns: Portrait of an Artist as a Young %@&*!," is in part a reissue of earlier work that the graphic novelist first published in 1978, and in part a memoir. But it is the lengthy introduction ...
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17 Sep 2008 at 8:26am Mostly Harmless, the fifth and last Hitchhiker book, was written by its creator Douglas Adams (left) 16 years ago. A children's author has been commissioned to write the first posthumous instalment to the best-selling Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy ...
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16 Sep 2008 at 7:54pm Douglas Adams's increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy is to be extended to six titles, after Adams's widow Jane Belson sanctioned a project which will see children's author Eoin Colfer taking up the story. And ...
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10 Sep 2008 at 7:54pm If novelist Herman Wouk lives much longer -- as, God willing, he will -- the Library of Congress may run out of ways to celebrate him. Thirteen years ago, the library put together a day-long symposium as a tribute to Wouk. Eight years ago, it named ...
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22 Aug 2008 at 12:11pm Gene Simmons was born Chaim Witz on august 25, 1949 in Israel. He is the blood-spitting, fire-breathing, tongue-wagging vocalist and rock bass guitarist of the rock band KISS. Due to his demonic face ...
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