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...Kerouac’s alcohol- and madness-induced depression, puts Farrar’s gritty, alt-country manner to good use. When he wails “I’m gonna die in full despair / and wake up where the atmosphere / is dearer and maybe closer to heaven,” one senses the raw desperation of a man on the edge of sanity...

Author: By Clio C. Smurro, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...Little Red Book, takes place on Nov. 5.) There's a high tweed-jacket count - book-collecting seems to be the province of silver-haired gentlemen, who bid courteously and quietly. Expect shelves crammed with leather-bound books and many more in cardboard boxes on the floor. Heaven for bibliophiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lots of Interest in London | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

...land of blind truth tellers makes him king. He takes his friend Greg (Louis C.K.) to a casino, moves the chips on the roulette table after the ball has landed and pockets a bundle. Then, to soothe his dying mother (Fionnula Flanagan), he concocts his biggest whopper yet: Heaven. Word gets around about this great news, life after death, and in a fairly bold Act III Mark reveals to his swelling flock of acolytes the truth, or the inspired lie, of the "big man who lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pants on Fire! The Inspired Invention of Lying | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...write for the prizes. I’m happy about the Nobel Prize, but that’s not the only agenda in one’s life. I’m writing books. I plan many books and I’m working very hard. Heaven for me is achieving and finishing these novels, executing them with all the details I imagined...

Author: By Stephanie M. Woo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fifteen Questions with F. Orhan Pamuk | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...approved of their parents’ executioners, and no culture of vendetta can repair the damage already done. The choice between vengeful gratification and reconciliation—or whatever approximation is possible—is a daily one, and one skillfully realized by “Five Minutes of Heaven...

Author: By Jack G. Clayton, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Five Minutes of Heaven | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

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